Tante Eva
Tante Eva A woman and her niece are bound together and driven apart by loves, desires, frustrations, and addictions.East Berlin, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She finds fleeting joy…
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Tante Eva
A woman and her niece are bound together and driven apart by loves, desires, frustrations, and addictions.East Berlin, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She finds fleeting joy in American jazz and blues records, and occasional visits from her married lover. Eva, a retired nurse, makes it through her day on a combination of stimulants and sleeping pills, wine and brandy.
Then her American niece, Maggie, arrives in Berlin. Her friendly teenaged neighbor is her closest companion. Eva is thrilled--Maggie is just the companion she's been seeking.
But happiness begins to slide from Eva's grasp as Maggie's own fierce drug addiction reveals itself.Tante Eva is a story that deftly takes in decades of family life and German history, estrangement, joys, and disappointments. It is a portrait of East Berlin in the years after the Wall came down, and of an