| Fire Doesn't Burn Contributor(s): Rothmann, Ralf (Author), Mitchell, Mike (Translator) |
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ISBN: 085742047X ISBN-13: 9780857420473 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: German List |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (1.15 lbs) 309 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to M ggelsee, at the city's bucolic border, where the differences between East and West have not yet faded and strange encounters with men from the vanished republic are still a part of daily life. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina. The monotony of life in their comfortable apartment gives way, however, when an old girlfriend surfaces and Wolf escapes his boredom into a torrid affair. As Wolf's struggle with his infidelity grows, so grows the hell of his concealment. Called "a grand master of his craft" by Neue Z rcher Zeitung, and "among the best and brightest that contemporary German literature has to offer" by Fuldaer Zeitung, Ralf Rothmann is one of Germany's most gifted writers. Fire Doesn't Burn is a dark recasting of the delicate reunification of East and West as a chronicle of erotic desire and an extraordinary rediscovery of emotion and place. "Fire Doesn't Burn is intense and tragic, and unquestionably Rothmann's most personal work."--Peter Mohr, Kleine Zeitung |
Contributor Bio(s): Rothmann, Ralf: - Born in 1953 in Schleswig, Ralf Rothmann grew up in the Ruhrgebiet, and now lives in Berlin. He is the author of four other novels, including Young Light, also published by Seagull Books. Mitchell, Mike: -Mike Mitchell has worked as a literary translator since 1995. He was awarded the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Herbert Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China. |