Description
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 émigrés 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 economy of style reminiscent of the great humorists. [Several of his European editors make a comparison with current bestseller David Sedaris.] Kaminer manages to say a great deal without seeming to say much at all. He speaks about the offbeat personal events of his own life but captures something universal about our disjointed times.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.125 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.2 × 12.6 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format Old` | |
| Language | |
| Pages | 176 |
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| Year Published | 2002-8-1 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0091886694 |
| About The Author | 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. |
It's Berlin's Trainspotting, only without the drugs |
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| Other text | razor sharp prose |
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