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Adam and Evelyn tells the story of the emigration of an East German couple in the late summer and early autumn of 1989, said the novel's Hungarian translator Lídia Nádori. The mood of the book is similar to a road movie and the "short, bouncy dialogue" in the 248-page book is much like that in a screenplay, she added.
Evelyn leaves East Germany for Hungary after her boyfriend Adam, a tailor of women's clothing, is unfaithful. She waits on the shores of Lake Balaton together with hundreds of other East Germans for the border between Hungary and Austria to be opened. Adam follows Evelyn and both manage to cross over to the West.
Schulze is considered to be the contemporary "chronicler of East Germany" but he has no nostalgia for the dictatorship under which he himself once lived, Nádori said. Unlike Schulze's earlier works, Adam and Evelyn has fewer autobiographical elements, she added.
Adam and Evelyn is a special book for Hungarians as it shows how they were viewed by East Germans twenty years earlier, Nádori said.
Ingo Schulze will read from his new book, published in Hungarian by Európa Könvykiadó, at Budapest's Goethe Institute on November 13.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: Máté Nándorfi
