Aftertime

Trade Cloth – $28.00
ISBN 978-0-8101-1504-0Publication Date
May 1999
Categories
Page Count
116 pages
Trim Size
5 3/4 x 8 3/4
ISBN
0-8101-1504-2
Aftertime
In her last year at the university in Kiev and shortly before she is to take her final examinations, the narrator is persuaded to go for a lake cruise north of the city. Sixty miles away, a nuclear reactor explodes. Returning to Berlin, she recognizes with mounting horror the symptoms that belie the Soviet government's denials and becomes obsessed with having a healthy baby--the only proof to herself and to the world that she has been untouched by the disaster.
Reviews
"Alternately hopeful and bitter, Aftertime delves convincingly into the psyche of a woman clinging desperately to denial. Klein's nameless heroine movingly recounts her effort to hold back the horrible fate that circumstances have decreed for her." --Booklist
"It is important for us to be prodded out of our apathy from time to time. . . . The problems and dangers described are still relevant today, except that it seems we are getting used to them and accommodating ourselves to them. [This] detailed and sensitive description . . . is certain to arouse readers." --Christa Wolf, author of Accident