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Learning German (Badly) (Paperback)
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Learning German (Badly) (Paperback)
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Loot Price R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
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With the possiblity looming that the referendum might get passed
and he'll lose easy access to his German partner and Germany,
British stage director Tim Luscombe must get a German passport. To
apply he must first pass his German language test. To do that, he
must first learn German. It goes badly. An ode to a potential
union, a lament for lost citizenship and a celebration of life, Tim
Luscombe's comic diary charms as it enlightens. Apparently secure
in the cosmopolitan bubble of Berlin, Tim seeks to win citizenship
by returning to school to learn German. However, his twenty
international classmates are not as focussed on study as he would
wish. Karole from Botswana, Mervyn from Estonia and Jang-Mi from
Korea become his new unlikely friends as together they grapple with
mind-bending grammar, the art of integration and baffling
immigration paperwork. As their flawed but valiant teacher attempts
to coral her ship of fools towards an understanding of the dative,
some prosper while others move on. As well as reflecting the
anarchy of the class, Learning German (badly) records Tim's despair
watching from afar the build-up to the referendum to leave the
European Union - Brexit. And then its aftermath when the UK votes
to leave the EU. His sense of himself as a European is threatened
when a new England is born, heralded by Teresa May's conference
speech damning 'citizens of nowhere'. As an old England dies and
Tim mourns and feels a sense of loss and confusion, his father also
faces his own death in Teddington Hospital, forcing priorities to
shift and the comedy to darken. As a European political union is
torn apart, a new personal union deepens when Tim's peregrinations
end and he falls in love with his newly adoptive country and
marries his German boyfriend. This comedy of manners is as much
about the dynamics of a classroom as it is about a union of
countries - as much about feelings of isolation among unfamiliar
people-places-and-things as it is about how those feelings
ultimately transform into renewal. Its central interests are
transience, identity, community - and how not to learn German.
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