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The Tango Player (Writings from an Unbound Europe)

The Tango Player (Writings from an Unbound Europe)

by Christopher Hein (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

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Synopsis

Set in 1968 Leipzig, Christoph Hein's novel is the story of Dallow, an apolitical academic who has just returned to civilian life after serving twenty-one months in prison. His crime: he was the substitute piano player in a student cabaret in which seditious verses were sung. Dallow returns to a life in of loveless sex, police harassment, and brutality, revealing how a corrupt system perverts all human interaction, and how lives are ruined by malicious caprice.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 220
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 31 Dec 1994
ISBN 10: 0810111160
ISBN 13: 9780810111165

Author Bio
Christoph Hein (born 8 April 1944) is a German author and translator. He grew up in the village Bad D ben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director. From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksb hne in Berlin, where he worked a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer. Hein first became known for his 1982 novella Der fremde Freund (The Distant Lover). From 1998 to 2000 Hein was the first president of the pan-German PEN-Centre.