By Walter Kempowski. The publisher writes: "1989 - a great commemorative year raises its skirts: Fifty years since the beginning of the war, forty years since the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR. And I turn sixty." This is the first entry in the diary of the writer, who at the time could not have foreseen the dramatic development that this year would take, a development that would permanently change the course of history. Kempowski's last entry in this year shows how much he too was surprised by the fall of the Wall: "What a year! A regular bourgeois revolution in the year commemorating the French Revolution. And we were there! With our eyes and ears: Madness!" Hardback book with dust jacket, 608 pages, 13.5 x 21.0 cm ISBN: 978-3-8135-2604-2 € 29.00 [D] | € 29.90 [A] | CHF 38.50* (* recommended retail price) Publisher: Knaus Published: 05.09.2001