In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with
her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West
Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while
on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind
the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight years. Kuczynski's
fascinating memoir relates her experiences of life in East Germany
as a student, a fledgling academic philosopher, an independent
writer, and, above all, as a woman. Though she was never a true
believer in Communism, Rita gained entry into the circles of the
East German intellectual elite through her husband Thomas
Kuczynski. There, in the privileged world that she calls "the
gardens of the nomenklatura," she saw first-hand the contradictions
at the heart of life for the East German intelligentsia. Published
in English for the very first time twenty-six years after the fall
of the Berlin Wall, Wall Flower offers a rare - and critical - look
at life among the East German elite. Told with wry wit and
considerable candor, Kuczynski's story offers a fascinating
perspective on the rise and fall of East Germany.
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