{"product_id":"the-short-end-of-the-sonnenallee-paperback","title":"The Short End of the Sonnenallee - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Brussig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJonathan Franzen\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eJenny Watson\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Brussig's classic German novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Short End of the Sonnenallee\u003c\/i\u003e, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYoung Micha Kuppisch lives on the nubbin of a street, the Sonnenallee, whose long end extends beyond the Berlin Wall outside his apartment building. Like his friends and family, who have their own quixotic dreams--to secure an original English pressing of \u003ci\u003eExile on Main St.\u003c\/i\u003e, to travel to Mongolia, to escape from East Germany by buying up cheap farmland and seceding from the country--Micha is desperate for one thing. It's not what his mother wants for him, which is to be an exemplary young Socialist and study in Moscow. What Micha wants is a love letter that may or may not have been meant for him, and may or may not have been written by the most beautiful girl on the Sonnenallee. Stolen by a gust of wind before he could open it, the letter now lies on the fortified \"death strip\" at the base of the Wall, as tantalizingly close as the freedoms of the West and seemingly no more attainable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Short End of the Sonnenallee\u003c\/i\u003e, finally available to an American audience in a pitch-perfect translation by Jonathan Franzen and Jenny Watson, confounds the stereotypes of life in totalitarian East Germany. Brussig's novel is a funny, charming tale of adolescents being adolescents, a portrait of a surprisingly warm community enduring in the shadow of the Iron Curtain. As Franzen writes in his foreword, the book is \"a reminder that, even when the public realm becomes a nightmare, people can still privately manage to preserve their humanity, and be silly, and forgive.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Brussig\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven novels, including \u003ci\u003eWie es leuchtet \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHelden wie wir\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eHeroes Like Us\u003c\/i\u003e, FSG, 1997). As a screenwriter, he worked with Edgar Reitz on his \u003ci\u003eHeimat \u003c\/i\u003eepic. Born in East Berlin, Brussig now divides his time between Berlin and Mecklenburg. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonathan Franzen \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of six novels, including\u003ci\u003e The Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePurity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCrossroads\u003c\/i\u003e, and five works of nonfiction, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Kraus Project\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJenny Watson \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor of German at Marquette University. Since receiving her PhD in German and Scandinavian literature, Watson has published many books and articles, including \u003ci\u003eGerman Milwaukee\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Selma Lagerlöf: Surface and Depth,\" and \u003ci\u003eScandinavia and Germany: Cross-Cultural Currents\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772613558560,"sku":"9781250878991","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cae857fc4c9287ea02e04accb8de0942.webp?v=1780409517","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-short-end-of-the-sonnenallee-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}