A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists' Julian
Barnes'Tender acute and utterly absorbing' Anna Funder (author of "Stasiland") Growing up in
East Berlin Maxim Leo knew not to ask questions. All he knew was that his rebellious parents
Wolf and Anne with their dyed hair leather jackets and insistence he call them by their first
names were a bit embarrassing. That there were some places you couldn't play certain things
you didn't say. Now married with two children and the Wall a distant memory Maxim decides to
find the answers to the questions he couldn't ask. Why did his parents once passionately in
love grow apart? Why did his father become so angry and his mother end her career in
journalism? And why did his grandfather Gerhard the Socialist war hero turn into a stranger?
The story he unearths is like his country's past one of hopes lies cruelties betrayals but
also love. In "Red Love" he captures with warmth and unflinching honesty why so many dreamed
the GDR would be a new world and why in the end it fell apart.
