The Shadow-Boxing Woman
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Inka Parei
Seagull Books,
184 pages, R425
A decaying apartment building in post-Wall Berlin is home to Hell, a young woman with a passion for the martial arts. When Hell's neighbour disappears, she sets out across the city in search of her. In the course of her quest, she falls in love with a bank robber and confronts her own dark memories. What is on the surface a crime novel is actually a haunting dual portrait of a city and a woman caught up in times of change.
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