Margaret Goldsmith „Good-bye für heute“

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Reading with Britta Jürgs (AvivA-Verlag) and Eckhard Gruber (translator and editor)

Berlin 1926: After the death of her father, the young student Karin lives with her mother Jean and her twin brother Erhard in the family's former city home on Lützowplatz. After the war, the apartment is divided and rented out by the room, and there are also cracks in the family. American-born Jean, who has returned to work as a journalist since the death of her husband Count Tarnowitz, is a staunch democrat and does not share the arch-conservative views of her aristocratic family-in-law. Karin wants to join the socialist party, while Erhard wants the monarchy back.

In her debut novel from 1928, Margaret Goldsmith creates a vivid picture of two generations of emancipating women and their struggle for equality and social recognition. She combines the political polarization of the 1920s with everyday family disputes and portrays a society at a tipping point - with striking parallels to the present day.

Editor and translator Eckhard Gruber introduces the German-American writer Margaret Goldsmith and her Berlin novel in conversation with AvivA publisher Britta Jürgs.