Berlin
eBook - ePub

Berlin

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

"Berlin is a sad city, but it's a sadness you don't see. It's like having heavy metals slowly build up in your body. You can spend a few days, weeks, months, or even years here and never notice how heavy your heart has become."

A little boy who is afraid of telephones; a woman recounting to her lover her recent sexual assault; a man wondering what would happen if he woke up each morning nine minutes earlier than he had the morning before; a student who is plied by his German teacher with glass after glass of cheap wine...

The protagonists of Andris KurpriÅ”s's debut collection are at times melancholy and worrisome, and world-angry or absurdist at others. KupriÅ”s plays with tension, a building up to climaxes reminiscent of Henry James—but with endings that leave a lingering sense of having missed some important detail, some sinister clue that will reveal all meaning. Deceptively simple, nostalgic, and resigned, KurpriÅ”s's characters show how it can be just as hard to arrive somewhere (physical or intangible) as it can be to leave.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Proletarian Therapy
  6. The Apology
  7. You’re the First Person I’ve told
  8. The Refusal
  9. The Rape
  10. The Last Walk Before Beginning
  11. The Typical Fit of Melancholy: a Case Study
  12. Success Creates Its Own Opportunities
  13. The Premiere
  14. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Other Languages
  15. A Very Special Person
  16. Slacker
  17. Fingers
  18. Golden Hour
  19. The Telephone
  20. A Courageous Decision
  21. To Gaze Out the Window
  22. Cold Hands
  23. A Pathological Case
  24. Two Ways in Which the Following Situation Differs
  25. Slippery Ice
  26. Berlin
  27. About the Authors
  28. Back Cover