The Short End of the Sonnenallee
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The Short End of the Sonnenallee

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The Short End of the Sonnenallee

About this book

'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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Information

Publisher
Fourth Estate
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780008559328
eBook ISBN
9780008559335
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction by Jonathan Franzen
  7. Churchill’s cold stub
  8. The condemned
  9. Inwhicheveryonetalksatonce
  10. Dance hall days
  11. Fifty Western short
  12. Clay or putty, that is the question
  13. Non, je ne regrette rien
  14. Avanti Popolo
  15. The heart a bit larger
  16. The bottom-dog Russian boot cleaner of the Eastern Steppe
  17. Je t’aime
  18. Subversion: this way, that way, or a third way
  19. How Germany failed to be divided in four
  20. Life and death on the Sonnenallee
  21. About the Author
  22. About the Publisher

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