Burning Down The Haus
Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
$44.75
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2020
Summary
LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN
‘A moving, powerful and highly innovative sidelight on the fall of Communism in East Germany through punk style and music. This is a complete original’ HWA Non-Fiction Crown Judges
‘A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world’ Rolling Stone
‘A riveting and inspir…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349701288 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349701288 |
| Author: | Tim Mohr |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Dialogue Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
Wildly entertaining … A thrilling tale … A joy in the way it brings back punk’s fury and high stakes - Vogue
Original and inspiring … Mohr has written an important work of Cold War cultural history - Wall Street JournalA thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world - Rolling Stone[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk’s hard-fought struggle in East Germany. The book chronicles, with cinematic detail, the commitment and defiance required of East German punks as they were forced to navigate constant police harassment and repression - New York Times Book ReviewOffers a captivating punk’s-eye view of everyday life as the DDR unravelled in its final years … Both a moving story of indefatigable defiance in the face of oppression and a complex portrait of everyday life in the DDR in the 1980s, Burning Down the Haus honours the punk spirit with its history from below - Times Literary SupplementAbout The Author
Tim Mohr
Tim Mohr has co-written best-selling memoirs by Duff McKagan of Guns ‘n’ Roses, Paul Stanley of KISS, and Gil Scott-Heron. He is also an award-winning translator of German novels, including Why We Took the Car and Sand by Wolfgang Herrndorf, Wetlands by Charlotte Roche and The Hottest Dishes of the Tartary Cuisine by Alina Bronsky. While a staff editor at Playboy magazine, he worked with Hunter S. Thompson and Matt Taibbi, among others. His writing has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Inked and Daily Beast. Prior to starting his writing career, Tim spent the 1990s as a DJ in Berlin.
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