The Other Sky

•History which gets under your skin: a dramatic attempt to escape from East Germany, a great love and a second chance

•Renate Ahrens captivates with her emphatic language

Irina Lohrisch was just about to finish high school as she met the love of her life in 1974: Frank Hollmann, a young writer whose prose is not desired in East Germany. Their love gives Irina and Frank the courage to attempt a dramatic escape, which for Irina ends with more than two years imprisonment in a Stasi prison. What she discovers about Frank during this time rips the carpet from under her feet. It takes 35 years until a certain Frank Hollmann publishes his autobiography and Irina reads a story which is her own yet completely different. Can there actually be two versions of the truth?

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 01.10.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-52360-5
  • 320 Pages
  • Author: Renate Ahrens
The Other Sky
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Renate Ahrens

Renate Ahrens, born in 1955, studied English and Romance Studies, and worked as a teacher for a few years before starting as a freelance author in 1986. She writes novels, plays for the theatre and German-English children’s books. Today, she lives with her husband moving between Dublin and Hamburg. Renate Ahrens is a member of the P.E.N.-Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland (P.E.N. centre of German-speaking authors abroad).