German List #: Monsters Like Us

German List #: Monsters Like Us
Karen Leeder, Ulrike Almut Sandig
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 172pg
19 Jun 2022 UK
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9780857429834
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A novel of two young friends growing up on divergent paths in the last days of Communist East Germany. What is it like to be young and broken in a country that is on the brink of collapse? This is what acclaimed poet and sound artist Ulrike Almut Sandig shows us in her debut novel, through the story of old friends Ruth and Viktor in the last days of Communist East Germany. The two central characters are inseparable since kindergarten, but they are forced to go their different ways to escape their difficult childhood: Ruth into music and the life of a professional musician; Viktor into violence and a neo-Nazi gang. Monsters Like Us is a story of families, a story of abuse, a story about the search for redemption and the ways it takes shape over generations. More than anything, it is about the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, and who we want to be. Bold, brutal, and lyrical, this is a coming-of-age novel that charts the hidden violence of the world we live in today.

"I"
30 April 1945: The Day Hitler Shot Himself and Germany's Integration with the West Began
Air Raid
Alice in Sussex: Mahler after Lewis Carroll and H. C. Artmann
Anarchy's Brief Summer: The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti
Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz
Apostoloff
Art of Diremption, The: On the Powerlessness of Art
August
Beloved of the Dawn, The
Blumenberg
Collected Poems
Correspondence
Cox: Or the Course of Time
Dark Company: A Novel in Ten Rainy Nights
Dark Ship, The
Dispatches from Moments of Calm
Drilling Through Hard Boards: 133 Political Stories
Fire Doesn't Burn
Flowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena
Flying Mountain, The
For the Dying Calves: Beyond Literature: Oxford Lectures
Fury
Gone But Not Forgotten: My Favourite Flops and Other Projects that Came to Nothing
Gramsci's Fall
Great Fall, The
Holderlin: A Play in Two Acts
I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other
In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust (Graphic Novel)
It All Tastes of Farewell: Diaries, 1964-1970
Jew Car, The
Killing Happiness
King of China, The
Kong's Finest Hour: A Chronicle of Connections
Loving at a Distance
Money, Money, Money!: A Short Lesson in Economics
Monsters Like Us
Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962
Notebooks, Volume 1, 1998-99
On Tarrying
Part of the Solution
Party Fun with Kant
Rubble Flora: Selected Poems
Sea in the Radio, The: Journal Sentences
September: Mirage
Sex of the Angels, The Saints in Their Heaven, The: A Breviary
Shadow-Boxing Woman, The
Silences of Hammerstein, The
Singers Die Twice: A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad
Squandered Advice
Starlite Terrace
Storm Still
The Fire Above, the Mountain Below
Three Plays: Philoctetes, the Horatian, Mauser
Three Plays: Rechnitz, the Merchant's Contracts, Charges (the Supplicants)
Ulysses: Mahler after Joyce
Unfinished, The
Village Indian, The
What Darkness Was
What Was Before

Born in former East Germany in 1979, Ulrike Almut Sandig has written two books of short stories, and four volumes of poetry as well as a novel. In 2021 she was invited to give the prestigious Thomas-Kling Poetics Lectures. Karen Leeder is a writer, critic, and prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature including work by Durs Grunbein, Volker Braun, Michael Kruger, Evelyn Schlag, and Raoul Schrott.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780857429834
Published: 19 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London
Publisher: Seagull Books London
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 172

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