Summary
A brilliant, hilarious, tragicomic novel of life in the bars of Berlin.It’s 1989 and, whenever he isn’t hanging out in the local bars, Herr Lehmann lives entirely free of responsibility in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Through years of judicious sidestepping and heroic indolence, this barman has successfully avoided the demands of parents, landlords, neighbours and women. But suddenly one unforeseen incident after another seems to threaten his idyllic and rather peaceable existen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099449232 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099449234 |
| Author: | Sven Regener |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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“The German counterpart to Jay McInerney’s classic depiction of the 1980s, Bright Lights, Big City .” – Booklist
Regener has captured absolutely the lifestyles and conversations of a group of pre-fall-of-the-Wall Berlin friends * Time Out *Full of Kafkaesque absurdity, Berlin Blues is as wilfully detached, witty, endearing and deadpan comic as its loafer protagonist * Big Issue *Regener captures note-perfectly the disengagement of a German generation that came of age between the crushing of the Baader-Meinhof underground and the demolition of the Wall * Evening Standard *
About The Author
Sven Regener
Sven Regener is the lead singer and songwriter of the band Element of Crime. Berlin Blues is his first novel.
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