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The short end of the Sonnenallee

"Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the wall"--

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Main Author: Brussig, Thomas, 1964- (Author)
Other Authors: Franzen, Jonathan, Watson, Jenny (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York : Picador USA, 2023.
Subjects:
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 > Fiction.
Cold War > Fiction.
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Summary:"Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the wall"--
Physical Description:137 pages
ISBN:9781250878991
1250878993
Author Notes:

Thomas Brussig is the author of seven novels, including Wie es leuchtet and Helden wie wir ( Heroes Like Us , FSG, 1997). As a screenwriter, he worked with Edgar Reitz on his Heimat epic. 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 , all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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.


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