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Loading... Herr Lehmann (original 2001; edition 2001)by Sven Regener, Sven Regener (Author)
Work InformationBerlin Blues by Sven Regener (2001)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A fun story of a simple guy who finds joy and peace in his simple life. Some may call him lazy but he also looks enlightened in his own way. ( ) I really enjoyed this one, and hereby I solemnly swear to stop being prejudiced against German authors (I think Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre may be to blame here..). It was funny and wonderfully fitting for my current mood - Herr Lehmann has pretty much the same problems I'm having. And it's really well-written and not even the run-on-sentences (which is something I usually don't like) could put me off. Recommended. no reviews | add a review
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The year is 1989 and Herr Lehmann lives entirely free of responsibility in a tiny flat in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg, whenever he isn't hanging out in the local bars. Through years of judicious sidestepping and heroic indolence this barman, unburdened by ambition, has successfully avoided the demands placed upon him by parents, landlords, neighbours and women. But suddenly one unforeseen incident after another seems to threaten his idyllic and rather peaceable existence. He has an encounter with a decidedly unfriendly dog, his parents threaten to descend on Berlin from the provinces to pay him a visit, and he meets a dangerously attractive woman who entices him to the swimming baths, thereby throwing his emotional life into confusion. He is even forced to go to the fashionable Kurf-rstendamm and to attempt to enter East Berlin. BERLIN BLUES is a richly entertaining evocation of life in the city and a classic of modern-day decadence. No library descriptions found. |
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