When was first published in east Germany in 1968, there was an immediate storm: bookshops in east berlin were given instructions to sell it only to well-known customers professionally involved in literary matters; at the...When was first published in east Germany in 1968, there was an immediate storm: bookshops in east berlin were given instructions to sell it only to well-known customers professionally involved in literary matters; at the annual meeting of east German writers conference, Mrs Wolf's new book was condemmed. Yet the novel has nothing explicitly to do with politics.