Winds of Change, Sylvia Petter
Winds of Change, Sylvia Petter
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Winds of Change
a novelette in flash

Author: Sylvia Petter

Narrator: Bronwyn Grannall

Unabridged: 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Flo Do Books

Published: 06/29/2021


Synopsis

Winds of Change is the story of how ordinary people react and adapt to political change. With the background of Chemnitz in the Eastern part of Germany it follows the lives of Dieter S., a Stasi operative, and Kai T. the man on whom he spies over the duration of the life of the GDR to which both are loyal because of its creation in opposition to fascism.

“Sylvia Petter has captured with wonderful brevity and efficiency a weird bit of history that came and went in a relatively short time, yet caused incalculable havoc to ordinary people’s lives in the most absurd and petty ways. She tells it in flash form but the story lingers long after you’ve read it.” - Simon Edge, author of The Hopkins Conundrum

“Sylvia Petter’s timely novel in flash evokes perfectly the letters sent, intercepted, and finally received, through which this story of fragmented yet enduring love and hope is told. Set against the backdrop of Chemnitz before and after the fall of the Berlin wall, Petter’s precise prose brings to life in crisp, vivid detail a not too distant past that rings eerily true to the present. A portent.” - Rachel J Fenton, author of Beerstorming with Charlotte Brontë in New York

“Who can you love? Who can you trust? Boldly reimagining the flash fiction form, Sylvia Petter has created an epic tale in a compressed space, a compelling, powerful, poetic retelling of history filled with secrets, dissidents, revolution, redemption and the indiscriminating winds of political change that touch us all.” - Nancy Stohlman, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on December 13, 2021

Not what I expected. The book has all the hallmarks of a rediscovered essay paraded in print. The author’s researched material is strong and his writing skills are obviously first rate but the book is a stodgy read. He doesn’t bring any of the events to life, preferring to rely on diary entries and......more

Goodreads review by Colin on September 25, 2019

This is the latest in a series of studies by renowned British political and constitutional historian Peter Hennessy of the post-Second World War United Kingdom. Its focus is the years 1960 to 1964: the latter phase of the Harold Macmillan premiership and the one year Alec Douglas-Home administration......more

Goodreads review by Lewis on February 17, 2023

I idly picked this off the "New arrivals" shelf of Ealing library, little realising that I had stumbled across such an engrossing read. I was astonished how little I knew about this period of British history - the only aspect I had even heard of was the Cuban Missile Crisis and Hennessy's telling of......more

Goodreads review by Peter on April 25, 2020

Superb review of Harold Macmillan's government through the 1960s using a lot of recently released papers. Top class.......more

Goodreads review by Tony on November 05, 2023

A magnificent tour de force, compelling and wonderfully readable, littered with brilliant anecdotes and a large dose of wit.......more