Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, fourth book. Kaethe Shalk spent years in East Berlin, devoted, after her fashion, to an American father himself devoted to the grand socialist idea. When the Berlin Wall comes down, the ruin of the East stands bare, in stark contrast to the exuberance of the West, as she journeys from America to Germany in search of a daughter, now grown and lost to her. 303 pp. ISBN: 1-593760051.