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Simple Stories

By Ingo Schulze

Simple Stories Contemporary literature

Simple Stories

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Prize-winning German writer Ingo Schulze's first novel, Simple Stories, is a marvel of storytelling and craft. Set in the East German town of Altenburg after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it deftly leaps among an array of confused characters caught in the crossroads of their country's history: a lovelorn waitress who falls for a visiting West German investor; an art historian turned traveling salesman; a former Communist official plagued by his past; an unsuccessful writer who asks his neighbor to break his leg so that he can continue to live on welfare. Schulze skillfully intercuts an assortment of moving and comic vignettes about seemingly unconnected people, gradually linking them into an exhilarating whole of tidal unity and emotional force, until we see that all the time we have been reading a novel in glittering fragments, spun by a master. With a piercing eye for detail and a magical ear for dialogue, Schulze portrays the tragi-comedy of ordinary people caught up in the last great historical upheaval of the century.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
306
Release Date:
2002-04-09
Publication Date:
2002-04-09
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375705120
ISBN13:
9780375705120
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
385 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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