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 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.
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Wladimir Kaminer Imprint: Ebury Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 126mm,
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 125g ISBN:9780091886691 ISBN 10: 0091886694 Pages: 176 Publication Date:15 August 2002 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for Russian Disco
""It's Berlin's Trainspotting, only without the drugs"" Sunday Times ""razor sharp prose"" Jewish Chronicle
