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Russian disco : tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin / Wladimir Kaminer ; translated by Michael Hulse.
Van Pelt Library PT2671.A4452 R8713 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaminer, Wladimir, 1967-
- Standardized Title:
- Russendisko. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Berlin (Germany)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Germany--Berlin.
- Kaminer, Wladimir, 1967-.
- Kaminer, Wladimir.
- Russians--Germany--Berlin.
- Russians.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 171 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Ebury, 2002.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the émigrés in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style reminiscent of the great humorists. [Several of his European editors make a comparison with current bestseller David Sedaris.] Kaminer manages to say a great deal without seeming to say much at all. He speaks about the offbeat personal events of his own life but captures something universal about our disjointed times.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from cover.
- ISBN:
- 9780091886691
- 0091886694
- OCLC:
- 49872603
- Publisher Number:
- 99993811091
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