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Half Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn't yet mastered the technique. Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set up to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history. Half Swimmer is a collection of stories from one life, following a young girl as she attempts to forge her own identity under the social pressures of both the GDR, and the capitalism of a unified Germany.
Read more - Author Katja Oskamp
- ISBN13 9781916806009
- ISBN10 1916806007
- Pages 150
- Published 2026
- Fecha de publicación 19/05/2026
- Language German, French
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Half Swimmer (German, French)
- By
- Katja Oskamp
- 9781916806009



