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| Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee |
Born in 1969 in East Berlin, Brussig published his book in 1999, 10 years after the wall came down. At the Short End of Sun Alley tells stories from behind the wall. With a lot of humor and irony, it shows that the adolescent protagonists of Brussig's East Berlin shared a lot of problems with their Western contemporaries: how to survive school, how to be cool, and most of all, how to impress the most beautiful girl in the street. In addition, the teenagers are dealing with the daily frustration of living in a socialist country and being confronted with equally smallminded Westerners. In the end, music proves once again to be life-saving. The book was made into a movie, Sonnenallee, in 1999.
Recommended by Karina von Tippelskirch.
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