- 289 pages
- English
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Schadenfreude, A Love Story
About this book
"
A wild and wonderful ride" from a comic memoirist "who writes brilliantly about Germany and GermansĀ .Ā .Ā . and being young and insane.Ā .Ā .Ā . just read it, ok?" (Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prizeāwinning,
New York Timesābestselling author of
Best. State. Ever).
You know that feeling you get watching the elevator doors slam shut just before your toxic coworker can step in? There's a word for this mix of malice and joy, and the Germans invented it. It's Schadenfreude, deriving pleasure from others' misfortune. Misfortune happens to be a specialty of Rebecca Schumanāand this is great news for the Germans. For Rebecca adores the Vaterland with a single-minded passion.
Let's just say the affection isn't mutual.
Schadenfreude is the story of a teenage Jewish intellectual who falls in loveāwith a boy (who breaks her heart), a language (that's nearly impossible to master), a culture (that's nihilistic, but punctual), and a landscape (that's breathtaking when there's not a wall in the way). Rebecca is a misunderstood 90's teenager with a passion for Pearl Jam and Ethan Hawke circa Reality Bites, until two men walk into her high school Civics class: Dylan Gellner, with deep brown eyes and an even deeper soul, and Franz Kafka, hitching a ride in Dylan's backpack. These two men are the axe to the frozen sea that is Rebecca's spirit, and what flows forth is a passion for all things German.
At once a snapshot of a young woman finding herself, and a country starting to stitch itself back together after nearly a century of war, Schadenfreude, A Love Story is a hilarious and heartfelt memoir proving that sometimes the truest loves play hard to get.
"Spit-out-your-schnitzel funny." āPamela Druckerman, New York Timesābestselling author of Bringing Up BĆ©bĆ©
You know that feeling you get watching the elevator doors slam shut just before your toxic coworker can step in? There's a word for this mix of malice and joy, and the Germans invented it. It's Schadenfreude, deriving pleasure from others' misfortune. Misfortune happens to be a specialty of Rebecca Schumanāand this is great news for the Germans. For Rebecca adores the Vaterland with a single-minded passion.
Let's just say the affection isn't mutual.
Schadenfreude is the story of a teenage Jewish intellectual who falls in loveāwith a boy (who breaks her heart), a language (that's nearly impossible to master), a culture (that's nihilistic, but punctual), and a landscape (that's breathtaking when there's not a wall in the way). Rebecca is a misunderstood 90's teenager with a passion for Pearl Jam and Ethan Hawke circa Reality Bites, until two men walk into her high school Civics class: Dylan Gellner, with deep brown eyes and an even deeper soul, and Franz Kafka, hitching a ride in Dylan's backpack. These two men are the axe to the frozen sea that is Rebecca's spirit, and what flows forth is a passion for all things German.
At once a snapshot of a young woman finding herself, and a country starting to stitch itself back together after nearly a century of war, Schadenfreude, A Love Story is a hilarious and heartfelt memoir proving that sometimes the truest loves play hard to get.
"Spit-out-your-schnitzel funny." āPamela Druckerman, New York Timesābestselling author of Bringing Up BĆ©bĆ©
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Authorās Note
- Epigraph
- 1. JugendsĆ¼nde
- 2. SprachgefĆ¼hl
- 3. Lebensraum
- 4. Schriftverkehr
- 5. Ostalgie
- 6. Wohngemeinschaft
- 7. Liebeskummer
- 8. Ereignis
- 9. Schadenfreude
- Nachwort
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright