Effi Briest Category_Grey Books/Politics as a poet of “compelling

as a poet of “compelling lyrical

in the novel

This 600-page book begins with an enticing description of the central character's arrival home (Lettice Cooper draws us so inexorably into the Aire world that we are gripped from the first line)

The US Publisher’s Weekly called the book ‘Haunting

faces a bleak future where ‘it is so extremely difficult for a woman of my age and uncertified qualifications to find a post‘ and DE Stevenson never forgets ‘the potentially bleak outlook for women who cannot marry into a secure life

Effi Briest Category_Grey Books/Politics as a poet of “compellingTRANSLATED BY WALTER WALLICH AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE LEE POTTER 320pp ISBN 9781910263112 In some ways an untypical Persephone Book, Effi Briest is a late nineteenth century novel; by a man; translated from the German, by a man, 55 years ago. This is how Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (Fon tah nuh, no silent vowels in German) came about. We were asked to give a small lecture tour in Germany, talking of course about Persephone Books. Have you read Effi