One Day A Year - Softcover

In 1960, following an invitation from a Moscow newspaper asking her to describe one day, the twenty-seventh of September, "as precisely as possible," Christa Wolf embarked on a journey of discovery and resistance lasting forty years. She would record her thoughts, experiences, and impressions as they unfolded over the course of a single day, the same day every year, for the next four decades. "How does life happen?" This is the question she sets about to answer as writer, mother, wife, citizen, and woman. Wolf offers her readers a meditation on what it means to write from life and to live by writing, and creates, year by year, one of the most spontaneous and enthralling personal accounts of the late twentieth century. One Day a Year is an intimate portrait of life on the "other side" of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War and of the tumultuous changes that so dramatically transformed Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.