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'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

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'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
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Autorenporträt
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.
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"One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life in East Berlin, in the shadow of the wall (quite literally)". -Daniel Kehlmann, The New York Times Book Review

"Compact, charming . . . [Jonathan] Franzen and [Jenny] Watson's translation keeps up an idiomatic swagger and ebullient good humor. Mr. Brussig's upbeat tale of life a few yards behind the Iron Curtain celebrates not the GDR regime but the sheer resilience that allows prisoners-of any system-to find inner freedom behind bars." -Boyd Tonkin, The Wall Street Journal

"A charming comedy of mid-80s East Germany; funny and tender, [this book] damns totalitarianism through its warm focus on ordinary, riotous teenage life." -The Guardian

"A delicious slice of life in 1980s East Berlin . . . Comedy, which comes through perfectly in the sharp translation, is essential to Brussig's project as he subverts the dread and paranoia of East German life by portraying a small world with love, tenderness, and humor hidden within it. There's a lot to love in this flipping of the Cold War script." -Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"This novel . . . performs what the author calls 'the miracle of making peace with the past' . . . Jonathan Franzen and Jenny Watson offer a stylish and elegant Sonnenallee." -Maren Meinhardt, The Times Literary Supplement

"An airy, cheerful translation . . . funny [and] rueful."-Nikhil Krishnan, The Telegraph (UK)

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