Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Christoph Hein
Born: April 8, 1944 (age 81)
Bio: Christoph Hein is a German author and translator. He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig.
Known for:
- Der fremde Freund (1982)
- In seiner frühen Kindheit ein Garten (2005)
- The distant lover (1989)
- Willenbrock (2000)
- Settlement (2008)