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Maxim Leo-Red Love

“The Country of Old Men”: Maxim Leo’s Red Love, Translated by Shaun Whiteside

Reviewed by Rachel Harland “I had the feeling that the GDR only really came to an end at that moment,” writes Berlin-based journalist Maxim Leo in the prologue to his autobiographical narrative Red Love: The Story of an East German Family. “Eighteen years after the fall of the Wall the stern hero had disappeared. Before […]