Die Überläuferin (English: The Defector) is a 1986 German-language novel by Monika Maron.
[1] In this, her second novel, the author questions the status of the individual in GDR society, making a critique of the state's ideological system.
[2] The heroine struggles with the oppressing social norms of society and its male-dominated, supposedly scientific, spirit.
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