| New Lives Contributor(s): Schulze, Ingo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307277984 ISBN-13: 9780307277985 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: In 1990 East Germany, Enrico Turmer turns his back on art and signs on to work at a newly started newspaper. This huge life change, in the midst of Germany's unifying upheaval, is captured in the letters Enrico writes to the three people he loves most. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009504366 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 5.38" W x 8.04" (0.96 lbs) 592 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In his long-awaited new novel, renowned German author Ingo Schulze provides a rich and nuanced panorama of a world in transition. East Germany, January 1990. Enrico T rmer-man of the theater, aspiring novelist-has turned his back on the art world and joined a startup newspaper. Before long, the former aesthete and rebel becomes obsessed with personal gain, and in a series of letters to his sister, a friend, and a would-be lover, Enrico vividly muses on his capitalist ventures and latent worldly ambitions. As Schulze peels away the layers of Enrico's previous existence, his antihero's reinvention comes to embody all the questionable aspects not only of life in the old Germany, but of life in the Germany just taking form. |