EAN: 9780008559359

THE SHORT END OF THE SONNENALLE - THOMAS BRUSSI...

'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 Thomas Brussig's classic German satire  translated into English for the first time and
introduced by Jonathan Franzen  is a comedic  moving account of life in East Berlin before the
Fall of the Berlin Wall The Short End of the Sonnenallee   is a satire set  literally  on the
Sonnenallee  the famed "boulevard of the sun" in East Berlin. Within this boulevard lives
Michael  an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building
and comes into view of the observation platform on the West side. "Look  a real Zonie. Can we
take your picture?" Hopelessly in love with the most beautiful girl on the street  Michael is
batted away in favour of the Western boys who are free to cross the border. What chance does
Michael have  and how much trouble will he get into by pursuing her? Laugh-out-loud funny and
unabashedly silly  Brussig's novel follows the bizarre  grotesque quotidian details of life in
the German Democratic Republic. As this new translation shows  the ideas at its heart - freedom
democracy and life's fundamental hilarity - hold great relevance for today. 'Gentle comedy ...
Funny  rueful' Telegraph

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