Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf (born Christa Ihlenfeld, 1929) is a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany.
Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, is endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed. After the fall of Troy, in a stream of memories, associations, reflections she comes to an understanding of her own life and of war. This is a recreation of a classical myth.