It is 1989 & Alex (Daniel Bruhl) & his sister Ariane (Maria Simon) live in East Germany with their mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass). A staunch Socialist, Alex's mother suffers a heart attack when she sees Alex being arrested on a protest march, & falls into a coma for eight months
- in which time the Berlin Wall comes down. When Christiane wakes up, doctors warn Alex that any shock could bring on a fatal heart attack, so he decides to convince his mother that her beloved Communism has not been overthrown, but is in fact triumphing over Capitalism; & Alex sets about recreating every detail of the old East Berlin in their flat.
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Mog was tired. She was dead tired... Mog thought, 'I want to sleep forever.' & so she did. But a little bit of her stayed awake to see what would happen next. A beautifully illustrated story with a new cover reissue that bids a fond farewell to everyone's favourite family cat. ...