I should also like to acknowledge the generous assistance of Christopher Zach, whose constructive and imaginative critique of the first draft was absolutely invaluable; and of Claudia Geithner, another former East German citizen, who not only lent me her excellent PhD thesis on East German novelists, but who carefully checked the manuscript for cultural and historical accuracy. Finally, I should like to mention Liz Foley at Harvill Secker and Alison Hennessey at Vintage for their astute and sensitive input into the final draft.
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