by Leo Maxim
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Original title: Haltet euer Herz bereit. Eine ostdeutsche Familiengeschichte. By Maxim Leo © 2009 by Karl Blessing Verlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House, Germany
English translation © 2013 Shaun Whiteside
This edition first published by Pushkin Press in 2013
The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
All images in this book are from © Private Archive of Maxim Leo, and reproduced with the permission of the author
ISBN 978 1 782270 68 3
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