Russian Disco
Tales of Everyday Lunacy on the Streets of Berlin
$35.78
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2002
Summary
Offbeat humorous tales of gritty life on the streets of hip and sleazy Berlin. A European bestseller.
Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early ‘90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the emigres in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of ‘90s Berlin. It’s an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin.
The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan econom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780091886691 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0091886694 |
| Author: | Wladimir Kaminer |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 126mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Ebury Press |
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Critics Review
It’s Berlin’s Trainspotting, only without the drugs
“It’s Berlin’s Trainspotting, only without the drugs” Sunday Times “razor sharp prose” Jewish Chronicle
Wladimir Kaminer
Born in Moscow in 1967, after studying drama and finishing his military service, he started a new life in Berlin in 1990. In Germany, Kaminer is now a renowned DJ for the infamous Russian Disco, a compulsory weekly event for young Berliners, which prompted Marie Claire to name him one of the 6 most important people in Berlin.
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