by Christoph Hein · Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722000222
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«O Amigo Distante» is the novel by Christoph Hein, published by Dom Quixote in paperback (180 pages, in Portuguese).
The narrator is a doctor at an East Berlin hospital, divorced and childless, who describes herself as invulnerable, as if she had bathed in dragon's blood. That armour isolates her from the world, from her past, and from Henry, the friend who lives in her same block and with whom she never quite connects. The novel portrays the loneliness, mistrust and frustrations of life in the GDR in the early 1980s.
The work was originally published in German as «Der fremde Freund» (1982); the Portuguese translation is by Ana Maria Carvalho.
Recommended for readers interested in contemporary European fiction and in the portrayal of everyday life in East Germany.
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator. He grew up in the town Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule (EOS) in the GDR, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director. From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation, he became a dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer.
