The Shadow-Boxing Woman
In The Shadow-Boxing Woman, a novel from German writer Inka Parei, a decaying apartment building in post-Wall Berlin is home to Hell, a young woman with a passion for martial arts. When Hell’s neighbor disappears she sets out across the city in search of her. In the course of her quest, she falls in love with a bank robber, confronts her own dark memories, and ends up saving more than just her missing neighbor.
What is on the surface a crime novel is actually a haunting dual portrait of a city and a woman caught up in times of change and transition. This debut novel in English combines Parei's tight prose with a compulsive delight in detail that dynamically evokes many lost and overlooked corners of Berlin.
- Author
- Inka Parei, Katy Derbyshire
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781906497958
- Settings
- Berlin
- Genres
- fiction
- Release date
- 2011
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