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THE SHORT END OF THE SONNENALLEE - THOMAS BRUSS...

Thomas Brussig's classic German novel  The Short End of the Sonnenallee  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 WallYoung Micha Kuppisch lives on the nubbin of a street  the Sonnenallee 
whose long end extends beyond the Berlin Wall outside his apartment building. Like his friends
and family  who have their own quixotic dreams-to secure an original English pressing of Exile
on Main St.  to travel to Mongolia  to escape from East Germany by buying up cheap farmland and
seceding from the country-Micha is desperate for one thing. It's not what his mother wants for
him  which is to be an exemplary young Socialist and study in Moscow. What Micha wants is a
love letter that may or may not have been meant for him  and may or may not have been written
by the most beautiful girl on the Sonnenallee. Stolen by a gust of wind before he could open it
the letter now lies on the fortified death strip at the base of the Wall  as tantalizingly
close as the freedoms of the West and seemingly no more attainable.The Short End of the
Sonnenallee  finally available to an American audience in a pitch-perfect translation by
Jonathan Franzen and Jenny Watson  confounds the stereotypes of life in totalitarian East
Germany. Brussig's novel is a funny  charming tale of adolescents being adolescents  a portrait
of a surprisingly warm community enduring in the shadow of the Iron Curtain. As Franzen writes
in his foreword  the book is a reminder that  even when the public realm becomes a nightmare 
people can still privately manage to preserve their humanity  and be silly  and forgive.

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