Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg
district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply
unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Müggelsee, at the
city’s bucolic border, where the differences between East and
West have not yet faded and strange encounters with men from the
vanished republic are still a part of daily life. But there, Wolf
finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily
routine with Alina. The monotony of life in their comfortable
apartment gives way, however, when an old girlfriend surfaces and
Wolf escapes his boredom into a torrid affair. As Wolf’s struggle
with his infidelity grows, so grows the hell of his concealment.
Called “a grand master of his craft” by Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
and “among the best and brightest that contemporary German
literature has to offer” by Fuldaer Zeitung, Ralf Rothmann is one
of Germany’s most gifted writers. Fire Doesn’t Burn is a dark
recasting of the delicate reunification of East and West as a
chronicle of erotic desire and an extraordinary rediscovery of
emotion and place
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
German List |
Release date: |
September 2019 |
Authors: |
Ralf Rothmann
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Translators: |
Mike Mitchell
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-722-9 |
Categories: |
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Fiction >
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LSN: |
0-85742-722-9 |
Barcode: |
9780857427229 |
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