Born in Siberia in 1954, Eugen Ruge defected to West Germany in 1988 and published his first novel in 2011. A sweeping family saga set in communist East Germany, "In Times of Fading Light" won the prestigious German Book Prize and has since been translated into over 20 languages.
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