The Valley of Unknowing EPUB

In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, author of a single world-famous novel written twenty years earlier, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West.

But Theresa has also caught the eye of a cocky young scriptwriter who delights in satirizing Krug's work. Asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript, Bruno is disturbed to find that the author is none other than his rival.

Disconcertingly, the book is good—very good. But there is hope for the older man: the unwelcome masterpiece is dangerously political.

Krug decides that if his affair with Theresa is to prove more than a fling, he must employ a small deception.

But in the Workers’ and Peasants’ State, knowing the deceiver from the deceived, the betrayer from the betrayed, isn’t just difficult: it is a matter of life and death.

Now the celebrated author and secret Stasi informer is ready to confess…The Valley of Unknowing is both a moving and entertaining love story and a seductive thriller, one that pits the past against the future, commerce against creativity, and art against life.