Russian Disco
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Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the émigrés in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style reminiscent of the great humorists. [Several of his European editors make a comparison with current bestseller David Sedaris.] Kaminer manages to say a great deal without seeming to say much at all. He speaks about the offbeat personal events of his own life but captures something universal about our disjointed times.
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It started off pretty good, I was into it, but my motivation flagged about 2/3 of the way through. Because this is a collection of observations, each about 4 pages long, there is no plot or narrative to pull the reader along. I did finish the book, but it was a close call. This book rates somewhere between 2.5 and 3 stars, and we always round up in this family.
Lose zusammenhängende Geschichten von einem Russen in Berlin. Nicht unbedingt schlecht geschrieben, aber auch nicht etwas was einem vom Sessel reisst.
