Also, it's really apparent that he wrote each short story for something other than a book, since he tends to repeat himself. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
A collection of short newspaper-column length anecdotes from a Russian in Berlin - before and after the wall came down. Be the first to ask a question about Russian Disco Welcome back. The E-mail Address(es) field is required. Please enter the message.Would you also like to submit a review for this item? Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2013. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Author: Wladimir Kaminer; Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448176174 Category: Biography & Autobiography Page: 176 View: 4104 DOWNLOAD NOW ยป Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Published Every month our team sort...Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22.
Usually they are more diverse.One chapter at a time when going to the bathroom. explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. Funny and familiar for people living in BerlinA strange one. Image provided by: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM [Several of his European editors make a comparison with current bestseller David Sedaris.] Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the \u00E9migr\u00E9s in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of \'90s Berlin. You do get the feeling that something was lost in the translation but it was enjoyable nonetheless, and it was wonderful that the majority of it was about the area we were staying in, Prenzlauer Berg.It started out at pop literature, but the finish was a little more charming than expected.
These read like an anecdote someone tells around the kitchen table over a glass of vodka. Way to suck the life out of what must have been fascinating times.Very nice for chilling. 0091886694 Russian Disco Book also available for Read Online, mobi, docx and mobile and kindle reading.
The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style reminiscent of the great humorists. Some features of WorldCat will not be available. Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22.
So... as this is a book about a Russian and his story in Germany, this is quite a Warsaw book for mNice and easy read if you like the mash of Russians in Berlin and how cultures clash in a relaxed way. The stories were neither as funny nor as interesting as some of his other books. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2008. Please enter recipient e-mail address(es).The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. Comment Report abuse. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. "Russendisko" isn't quite as annoying as that book, but only because the author doesn't try to pose as any of those, he's just writing about people he has met - fictional or not, I don't know, and I don't care. A Russian that immigrates to Berlin tells some great stories of the what he experienced in Berlin for the first few yearsno insights, repetitive, not funny...I do not know why it was ever published.My first book in German, so I liked it - more for the language itself, than for the style or the content.Every story feels like the synopsis to a longer, more interesting story.
I liked reading the perspective of immigration in countries other than my own -- a book written in Germany, presumably in RThe back cover made me think this was going to be more absurd than it was. You do get the feeling that something was lost in the translation but it was enjoyable nonetheless, and it was wonderfuIn Berlin I went into a beautiful bookshop in the fashionable Mitte area and asked the owner if he could recommend any novels by German authors. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. It's a series of short observations from a Russian Jew who came to Berlin after the fall of the wall, and the *hijinks* of the looney characters he meets along the way. If you expect a grand, heavy-handed and pedantically detailed reference book you won't get it. He speaks about the offbeat personal events of his own life but captures something universal about our disjointed times.
Also, it's really apparent that he wrote each short story for something other than a book, since he tends to repeat himself. If you expect a grand, heavy-handed and pedantically detailed reference book you won't get it. Please enter the subject. Geschichten unserer neuen Nachbarn) [Germany of all.Stories of our new neighbours]) but since that hasn't been translated, I couldn't review it here. It's not supposed to be a novel, and it means it's easy to pI think I liked this better when I read excerpts of it senior year of college.