The Short End of the Sonnenallee
Click to look inside
Summary
The feel-good place to buy books
The Short End of the Sonnenallee by Thomas Brussig
A kind of miracle Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes Jonathan Franzen One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life in East Berlin New York Times‘One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life in East Berlin, in the shadow of the wall’ New York Times
‘Gentle comedy … The fullness of Eastern lives, and their human ordinariness – despite the emptiness and abnormality of the background against which they were lived – is the subject of Brussig’s funny, rueful book’ Telegraph
‘The slim episodic novel The Short End of the Sonnenallee, which was set around the mid-1980s among East Berlin adolescents and evokes their world of feelings and experiences right down to the unfussy syntax, is the purest, brightest, most tender poetry of resistance’ Die Zeit
Thomas Brussig is the author of nine novels, including Wasserfarben and Helden wie wir. He also wrote the screenplays for two film adaptations of his novels Helden wie wir and Sonnenallee. Born in East Berlin, Brussig now divides his time between Berlin and Mecklenburg.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of six novels, including The Corrections, Freedom, Purity, and Crossroads, and five works of nonfiction, most recently The Kraus Project and The End of the End of the Earth. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Jenny Watson is an associate professor of German at Marquette University. Since receiving her PhD in German and Scandinavian literature, Watson has published many books and articles, including German Milwaukee, “Selma Lagerlöf: Surface and Depth,” and Scandinavia and Germany: Cross-Cultural Currents. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780008559328 |
| ISBN 10 | 0008559325 |
| Title | The Short End of the Sonnenallee |
| Author | Thomas Brussig |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2023-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |