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The Mirror Box

Published by Diogenes as Der Spiegelkasten
Original Title: Der Spiegelkasten

A moving novel about the power of memory and imagination – set both in the horrifying reality of World War I and the virtual world of today. In spring of 1915 the German-Jewish officer Ismar Manneberg writes a letter from the trenches to a woman who does not really exist – addressing it to any old Miss Müller. After all, all of his comrades are sending letters home. Much to his surprise, he gets a reply. Ninety years later a great-nephew finds Ismar Manneberg's photo album, and in it the faded picture of a mirror box. The young man is in the midst of a personal and career-related crisis. When an email arrives from ›WarGirl18‹, who seems to know something about the mysterious mirror box, he completely loses the plot. Events from long ago are charged with an immense explosive force that brings them all the way into the present. A prominent story that you think you already know – told from a radical new perspective.


General Fiction
224 pages
2011

978-3-257-06788-0
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»The Mirror Box gets under your skin. Yet despite the horrors of war Poschenrieder is able to create images that are poetically beautiful, sometimes absurd.«

Kai Kappes / Nürnberger Nachrichten
»In this gripping and well-told novel, Christoph Poschenrieder takes a fresh approach to the Great War which will have wide appeal.«
New Books in German, London

»The Mirror Box gets under your skin. Yet despite the horrors of war Poschenrieder is able to create images that are poetically beautiful, sometimes absurd.«

Kai Kappes / Nürnberger Nachrichten
»In this gripping and well-told novel, Christoph Poschenrieder takes a fresh approach to the Great War which will have wide appeal.«
New Books in German, London
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