Star 111

ISBN-13: 9781913505745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Lutz Seiler

Opis

Winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger Shortlisted for the 2022 Prix Femina etranger #1 on the Spiegel Bestseller List November 1989. The Berlin Wall has just fallen when the East German couple Inge und Walter, following a secret dream they've harboured all their lives, set out for life in the West. Carl, their son, refuses to keep watch over the family home and instead heads to Berlin, where he lives in his father's car until he is taken in by a group of squatters. Led by a shepherd and his goat, the pack of squatters sets up the first alternative bar in East Berlin and are involved in guerrilla occupations. And it's with them that Carl, trained as a bricklayer, finds himself an initiate of anarchy, of love, and above all of poetry. Winner of the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize and a bestseller in German already with 150,000 copies sold, Star 111, musical and incantatory, tells of the search for authentic existence and also of a family exploded by political change which must find its way back together.

O autorze

Seiler, LutzLutz Seiler wurde 1963 in Gera/Thüringen geboren, heute lebt er in Wilhelmshorst bei Berlin und in Stockholm. Nach einer Lehre als Baufacharbeiter arbeitete er als Zimmermann und Maurer. 1990 schloß er ein Studium der Germanistik ab, seit 1997 leitet er das Literaturprogramm im Peter-Huchel-Haus. Er unternahm Reisen nach Zentralasien, Osteuropa und war Writer in Residence in der Villa Aurora in Los Angeles sowie Stipendiat der Villa Massimo in Rom.Für sein Werk erhielt er mehrere Preise, darunter den Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis, den Bremer Literaturpreis, den Uwe-Johnson-Preis, 2014 den Deutschen Buchpreis und den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2020.