Spiel
by David Sornig
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19 July 2011 |
Introduction
For our last Book Club for the summer season we’ll be reading Spiel by Australian novelist and academic David Sornig
Through its narrator Karl, his childhood pen-pal letters and the Stasi surveillance files of an East German girl, Spiel engages with the turbulent history of the 20th century. The novel delves into the unshakable legacy of the holocaust and the end of the Cold War by tracing their ripples from post-war Australia all the way back to their symbolic centre in Berlin at the brink of the apocalyptic mindset of the 21st century.