A Woman [a novel]
  • 1988/256 pages
  • Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers

A Woman [a novel]

Peter Härtling, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Paperback: $14.00
ISBN: 978-08419-1047-8
The protagonist, Katharina Wüllner—like many other women who were born shortly after the turn of the century—married just after the First World War and then had to send her husband and sons to fight in World War II. Her life spans the regimes of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Weimar Republic, Hitler's Reich, the Allied Occupation, and finally the Federal Republic. Her story is in many ways typical of twentieth-century German life—but at the same time, it is the story of a hesitant, almost fearful emancipation. For although her life is determined by political events and other external circumstances, Katharina Wüllner does, all the same, begin to try to make her own way.
Peter Härtling has had a long career as writer, editor, and managing director in the world of newspaper, magazine, and book publishing. A prolific author, he has devoted himself to writing full-time since 1974.