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005    20230606114744.0 
008    221205t20232023nyu           000 f eng   
010      2022057944 
020    9781250878991|q(paperback) 
020    1250878993|q(paperback) 
035    (OCoLC)1330404231 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dOCLCF|dJCX|dSO$|dHRF|dYDX 
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049    CKEA 
050 00 PT2662.R87|bA413 2023 
082 00 833/.92|223/eng/20221205 
100 1  Brussig, Thomas,|d1964-|eauthor. 
240 10 Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee.|lEnglish 
245 14 The short end of the Sonnenallee /|cThomas Brussig ; 
       translated from the German by Jonathan Franzen and Jenny 
       Watson ; introduction by Jonathan Franzen. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPicador,|c2023. 
264  4 |c©2023 
300    xv, 137 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, 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."--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    Young 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 Exile on Main St., 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. The
       novel 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." 
650  0 Teenage boys|zGermany (East)|vFiction. 
650  0 Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989|vFiction. 
650  0 Cold War|vFiction. 
650  0 Totalitarianism|vFiction. 
650  0 Communities|zGermany (East)|vFiction. 
650  0 Interpersonal relations|vFiction. 
655  7 Novels.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01921742 
655  7 Satirical literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01922539 
655  7 Satirical literature.|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Psychological fiction.|2lcgft 
700 1  Franzen, Jonathan,|etranslator,|ewriter of introduction. 
700 1  Watson, Jenny|c(Translator),|etranslator. 
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