Accident: A Day's News - A Novel

Christa Wolf

University of Chicago Press

2001

121 páginas

4h 2m

ISBN-13: 9780226905068

On a flawless spring day in late April, an East German writer awaits a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery and instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and, above all, the importance of each moment lived — open, as Christa Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis. . .