It took eight years to write a first draft of The Vanishing Sky, and it would have felt odd to imagine the characters with somebody else’s face as I wrote their story. The regime and ideology are both different in my book, but the themes are largely the same - How do you navigate the expectations of an evil regime when the price of even minor resistance could be your freedom or your life?Ĭasting is trickier. In it, Donnersmarck brilliantly shows how ordinary people struggled with doing the right thing when faced with the demands of the brutal East German regime.
The Lives of Others is one of my favorite films. One dream director for the book would have to be Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. At the same time, her younger son Georg, who is fifteen years old, runs away from his post in the Hitler Youth and tries to make his way back home to her. She can’t rely on her husband Josef for help, since he’s become increasingly forgetful and nationalistic. Etta’s older son Max has come home from the Eastern front suffering from a mental breakdown, and Etta struggles to hide his condition from the authorities because she knows they’ll take him from her if they find out how sick he really is. Here Binder dreamcasts an adaptation of her new novel, The Vanishing Sky: The Vanishing Sky tells the story of a German mother named Etta Huber who is trying to hold her family together during the closing months of WW2. Her short fictionĬollection Rise received the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. In Writing at the University of California, Irvine.
The University of California at Berkeley, and an MFA from the Program She holdsĭegrees in classics and law from Harvard, an MA in comparative Born in Germany and immigrated to the U.S.
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