Russian Disco

Russian Disco

by WladimirKaminer (Author)

Synopsis

Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the emigres in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style reminiscent of the great humorists. [Several of his European editors make a comparison with current bestseller David Sedaris.] Kaminer manages to say a great deal without seeming to say much at all. He speaks about the offbeat personal events of his own life but captures something universal about our disjointed times.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Publisher: Ebury Press
Published: 01 Aug 2002

ISBN 10: 0091886694
ISBN 13: 9780091886691
Book Overview: Offbeat humorous tales of gritty life on the streets of hip and sleazy Berlin. A European bestseller.

Media Reviews
It's Berlin's Trainspotting, only without the drugs * Sunday Times *
razor sharp prose * Jewish Chronicle *
Author Bio
Born in Moscow in 1967, after studying drama and finishing his military service, he started a new life in Berlin in 1990. In Germany, Kaminer is now a renowned DJ for the infamous Russian Disco, a compulsory weekly event for young Berliners, which prompted Marie Claire to name him one of the 6 most important people in Berlin.