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1932 Germany: Middle-class, Jewish Hans forms an intense friendship with Konradin, a young aristocrat. A year later it is over. Reunion is a look at both the nature of friendship and the effect of Hit
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As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different
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