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Title: Star 111
Condition: New
Author: Lutz Seiler
Translator: Tess Lewis
Contributor: Tess Lewis (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781913505745
ISBN: 9781913505745
Publisher: And Other Stories
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: 06/09/2023
Description: Winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair PrizeLonglisted for the 2022 Prix du Meilleur Livre EtrangerShortlisted for the 2022 Prix Femina etranger#1 on the Spiegel Bestseller ListNovember 1989. The Berlin Wall has just fallen when the East German couple Inge und Walter, following a secret dream they've harboured all their lives, set out for life in the West. Carl, their son, refuses to keep watch over the family home and instead heads to Berlin, where he lives in his father's car until he is taken in by a group of squatters. Led by a shepherd and his goat, the pack of squatters sets up the first alternative bar in East Berlin and are involved in guerrilla occupations. And it's with them that Carl, trained as a bricklayer, finds himself an initiate of anarchy, of love, and above all of poetry.Winner of the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize and a bestseller in German already with 150,000 copies sold, Star 111, musical and incantatory, tells of the search for authentic existence and also of a family exploded by political change which must find its way back together.
Language: German
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Release Year: 2023

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