This month we will be reading In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge (translated by Anthea Bell)

Ruge's award-winning debut novel charts half a century of East German history through the story of apparatchik Wilhelm Powileit. This family saga captures in rich detail the realities of daily life in the German Democratic Republic, and evokes a melancholy sense of houses, countries, political systems and people falling apart.  (Àngel Gurrìa-Quintana, Financial Times) 

Faber&Faber Ltd., published 2014, 308 pages.

We hope you will join us to discuss this remarkable novel, which won the German Book Prize among many other honors.