A profound novel detailing the brutal legacy of Nazism on four generations of a family in Germany. Komotau, the Czech Republic, late summer, 1945. Four women†seventy-year-old Johanna, her two daughters Hanna and Maria, and Hanna†s daughter Anna†are ordered by the new Czech authorities to leave their homes and assemble with other Germans at the local train station. They are given thirty minutes†the “wild expulsionsâ€? of Sudeten Germans have begun. But where is Anna?  Witnessing the revenge lynching of SS and suspected collaborators on her walk home, she arrives in Komotau to find her family gone. The trek takes the older women via Munich, then Dresden and Magdeburg, to an outpost in the far northwest of the Soviet zone where they settle as farm laborers. Once united again, their hope of one day returning to the heimat†homeland†is both a source of strength and a burden, choking attachments to new surroundings and neighbors. This conflict will prove to be the story of their lives, as well as both the joy and ruin of Anna†s son.  A tale of four generations told in Reinhard Jirgl†s unique and subversively expressive idiom, The Unfinished plays out between the ruins of Nazi Germany and the rise and fall of communist East Germany, the birth of the Berlin Republic, and the shadow of a new millennium. Â
Biografie (Reinhard Jirgl)
Reinhard Jirgl wurde 1953 in Berlin (DDR) geboren. An seine Ausbildung zum Elektromechaniker schloss sich ein Studium der Elektronik an. 1978 kam er zur Berliner Volksbühne, dort arbeitete er als Beleuchtungstechniker.§Seit 1996 lebt Jirgl als freier Schriftsteller in Berlin. Er ist Mitglied im P.E.N.-Zentrum Deutschland und seit 2009 der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. 2010 wurde ihm der Georg-Büchner-Preis verliehen.
