{"product_id":"in-the-flesh-by-christa-wolf","title":"'In the Flesh' by Christa Wolf","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"558\"\u003eWritten late in Christa Wolf’s life, \u003cem data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"63\"\u003eIn the Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e is a feverish, compressed novel of illness, memory, politics and bodily collapse.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"558\"\u003eA woman lies in hospital, moving through tests, corridors, machines, procedures; all while her mind drifts through the afterlife of East Germany. The body here is not treated as a tidy metaphor. It is an unreliable archive: leaking, monitored, interpreted, spoken over, and refusing to become only evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"560\" data-end=\"1053\"\u003eThe hospital becomes a state of its own, with its rituals, commands, machines and softly menacing efficiencies; the self becomes something reviewed under fluorescent light. A sharp one for readers interested in European modernism, illness writing, feminist interiority or post-socialist memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1342\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst US edition hardback. Published by David R. Godine \/ Verba Mundi in 2005. Translated from the German by John S. Barrett. Copyright page states “First Edition.” Good used condition, with light shelf wear to jacket\/boards; pages clean and binding sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45446368362579,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-06T162549.213.png?v=1780727180","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/in-the-flesh-by-christa-wolf","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}