Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire
epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years
1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all
the way to Tel Aviv. Hubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born
in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth century. They will find
themselves - along with their Jewish adopted sister, Ev Solm -
caught up in in the maelstrom of their changing times. As the two
brothers climb the rungs of society - working first for the
government in Nazi Germany, then as agents for the Allied Forces,
and eventually becoming spies for the young West Germany - Ev will
be their constant companion, and eventually a lover to them both.
The passionate love triangle that emerges will propel the
characters to terrifying moral and political depths. The story of
the Solms is also the story of twentieth-century Germany: the
decline of an old world and the rise of a new one - under new
auspices but with the same familiar protagonists. Translated from
the German by Ruth Martin
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