by Jurek Becker · Suhrkamp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518387955
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«Amanda herzlos» is the novel by Jurek Becker, published in 1994 by Suhrkamp in paperback (383 pages, in German).
The novel portrays Amanda, a beautiful woman, through the voices of three male narrators who turn her into a symbol of the decline of East Germany. Between love story, literary satire and system critique, Jurek Becker composes a polyphonic vision of a society marked by the German Democratic Republic.
The work was originally published in 1992. This edition belongs to the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch collection (number 2295).
Aimed at readers of contemporary German fiction and those who want to approach everyday life in the GDR.
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.
