The Tower: A Novel
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‘NIP’, STAFF SERGEANT EMMERICH: professional soldier, responsible for the conscripts
‘PANCAKE’, STEFFEN KRETZSCHMAR: conscript, imprisoned with Christian
PHILIPP LONDONER: son of Jochen, academic, economist
REDLICH, JOSEF: editor at Dresdner Edition
REGINE NEUBERT: friend of the Hoffmans whose husband, Jürgen, has fled to the West
REGLINDE TIETZE: daughter of Niklas and Gudrun
REINA KOSSMANN: classmate of Christian
RICHARD HOFFMANN: surgeon; Christian’s father (Anne’s husband)
RITSCHEL: technician in Arbogast’s institute
ROGALLA, STEFFEN: conscript, corporal
RUDEN, JOHANNES: conscript, corporal
SANDOR HOFFMANN: from Ecuador, husband of Alice; Christian’s ‘uncle’ (Richard’s cousin)
SCHADE, PAUL: writer, Party hack
SCHANETT: truck driver at open-cast mine, lives on a farm
SCHEFFLER: rector of Medical Academy
SCHIFFNER, HEINZ: publisher at Dresdner Edition
SCHMÜCKE, NINA: neighbour of Josta, artist, later political activist
SIEGBERT GÜGER: classmate of Christian
SPERBER: lawyer
STAHL, GERHART: husband of Sabine, engineer, lives in same house as Meno
STAHL, SABINE: wife of Gerhart
STENZEL SISTERS: three former circus bareback riders, live in the same house as Christian
SVETLANA LEHMANN: classmate of Christian, committed communist
TEERWAGEN, PROFESSOR: physicist, lives with his wife in ‘Tower’ district
ULRICH ROHDE: Barbara’s husband, Christian’s uncle, managing director of a state-owned company
VERENA WINKLER: classmate of Christian
WENIGER, MANFRED: gynaecologist, friend of Richard Hoffmann from their student days
WERNSTEIN: junior doctor in trauma clinic, marries Ina Rohde
ZSCHUNKE, FRAU: greengrocer in ‘Tower’ district
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First published in German as Der Turm: Geschichte aus einem versunkenem Land. Roman by Suhrkamp Verlag 2008
This translation first published 2014
This edition first published 2014 by Allen Lane with Frisch & Co.
Copyright © Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 2008
Translation copyright © Mike Mitchell, 2014
The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The moral right of the author and translator has been asserted
Cover illustration © Eri Griffin
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ISBN: 978-0-241-00490-6