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Fire Doesn´t Burn
Ralf Rothmann
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Description for Fire Doesn´t Burn
Hardback. Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic border. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Series: The German List. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 494.
Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic border, where the differences between East and West have not yet faded and strange encounters with men from the vanished republic are still a part of daily life. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina. The monotony of life in their comfortable apartment gives way, however, when an old girlfriend surfaces and Wolf escapes his boredom into a ... Read more
Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic border, where the differences between East and West have not yet faded and strange encounters with men from the vanished republic are still a part of daily life. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina. The monotony of life in their comfortable apartment gives way, however, when an old girlfriend surfaces and Wolf escapes his boredom into a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
The German List
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857420473
SKU
V9780857420473
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About Ralf Rothmann
Ralf Rothmann, born in 1953 in Schleswig, grew up in the Ruhrgebiet and lives in Berlin. He is the author of four novels, including Young Light, also published by Seagull Books. A lecturer in German with a special interest in Austrian literature, Mike Mitchell has worked as a translator since 1995.
Reviews for Fire Doesn´t Burn
"Fire Doesn't Burn is intense and tragic, and unquestionably Rothmann's most personal work." (Peter Mohr, Kleine Zeitung)"