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Simple Stories
Paperback
Main Details
Title |
Simple Stories
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Ingo Schulze
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Translated by John E. Woods
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback | Pages:304 | Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781447219446
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Pan Macmillan
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Imprint |
Picador
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Publication Date |
5 January 2012 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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', in pitch-perfect prose reminiscent of Raymond Carver, about seemingly unconnected people. By the end, we know we have been listening to a novel in glittering fragments spun by a master - a complete tragicomedy of ordinary people in Nowheresville caught up in the last great cataclysm of the twentieth century.
Author Biography
Ingo Schulze, born in Dresden in 1962, studied classical philology at the University of Jena. His first book, 33 Moments of Happiness, won both the prestigious Doblin Prize and the Willner Prize for Literature.
Reviews'Ingo Schulze is our new epic storyteller' Gunter Grass 'A triumph' The Times
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