I Have No Regrets

By Brigitte Reimann, Lucy Jones (translator),

Book cover of I Have No Regrets: Diaries, 1955-1963

Book description

I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have liked me, and I've liked too many men.

Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann's collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany. With an upbeat tempo and amusing…

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1 author picked I Have No Regrets as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As a historian, I constantly try to get into the hearts and minds of people in the past.

For socialist East Germany, these diaries by the writer Brigitte Reimann let us see what it meant to be a woman in the GDR, to live and love, to build socialism, and then, in 1961, to see the Berlin Wall close off one’s world suddenly.

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