{"id":4346,"date":"2026-03-18T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookertea.com\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2026-10-25T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:24:10","slug":"kruso-lutz-seiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookertea.com\/de\/2026\/kruso-lutz-seiler\/","title":{"rendered":"Kruso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Lutz Seiler (Germany)<br>Paperback ISBN: 9781911344414<br>Pages: 480<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer 1989: Edgar Bendler, a young man reeling from personal loss, leaves Halle and lands on Hiddensee, a Baltic island that has become a strange refuge at the edge of the GDR. 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