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Synopsis
A heartbreaking and funny first novel from the author of 33 Moments of Happiness which makes us understand what life has been like since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Altenburg in Thuringia is a provincial flyspeck on the map of the new Germany. With laconic wit and a tenderness immune to sentimentality Schulze starts to tell us ‘simple stories’,...
Details
304 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘Ingo Schulze is our new epic storyteller’ Günter Grass
‘A triumph’ The Times