Original title: "Grenzgänge: Sozialismus, aus der Froschperspektive betrachtet auch. Aus dem Leben eines real existierenden Taugenichts" (Crossing borders: Socialism, seen from the frog's perspective. From the life of a real existing good-for-nothing) by Judith Hodosi.The title and subtitle describe the content of the book quite accurately. Embedded in a grotesquely disturbing post-reunification frame, the first-person narrator reports her life in the German Democratic Republic, seen from below. She clashes against her father, against her own gender, but most strongly against the narrow ideol
