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A Small Revolution in Germany (Hardcover)
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A Small Revolution in Germany (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R457
Discovery Miles 4 570
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A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to
accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts
that people make with their own futures; and it's about the rare
and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. Everyone remembers what
it's like to be seventeen. The conversations you have; the ideas
that burst on you; the kiss that transforms you. And then you grow
up, and make a deal with adulthood. A Small Revolution in Germany
is about that rapturous moment when ideas, and ideals, and passion
crash over one boy's head. And what happens in the decades
afterwards? When you see the overwhelming truth when you are
seventeen, why should you ever abandon that truth? Spike is brought
into a small, clever group of friends, bursting with a passion for
ideas, and the wish to change the world. They smash up political
meetings; they paint slogans on walls; they long for armed
revolution; they argue, exuberantly, until dawn. In the years to
follow, they all change their minds, and go into the world. They
become writers, politicians, public figures. One of them becomes
famous when she dies. They all change their minds, and make
sensible compromises. Only Spike stays exactly as he is, going on
with the burning desire for change, in the safe embrace of
unconditional love. Alone from the old group, he is the only one
who has achieved nothing, and who has never deviated from the
impractical shining path of revolution he saw as a teenager. Thirty
years on, photographs of the teenage group look like a bunch of
celebrated individuals, with only one unknown face in it - Spike.
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