The strange friend or dragon's blood

DDR, early 1980s: Claudia is a doctor, divorced and childless. When her neighbor Henry bursts into her apartment one evening and doesn't leave, she enters into a relationship with him that, despite superficial closeness, fails to break through her protective shell of self-denial, resignation, and emotional coldness. Henry remains a stranger to her. With the highly praised novella "Der fremde Freund," which was published in West Germany under the title "Drachenblut," Christoph Hein achieved literary breakthrough in divided Germany. A harrowing story about personal alienation in a surveillance state - read by the author himself. Unabridged author reading 1 mp3-CD approx. 5 h 22 min.