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Against the World

Gegen die Welt

Jan Brandt (born 1974)

Translated by Katy Derbyshire

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• Against the World

  Seagull Books · United Kingdom · 2022 · Paperback · 888 pages

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• Against the World

  Seagull Books · United Kingdom · 2016 · 882 pages

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A village in East Frisia: cows graze in the meadows, flowers bloom behind the hedges of the new estate, new cars gleam in the driveways. Here, in the mid-seventies, Daniel Kuper is born, a withdrawn boy with plenty of imagination and few opportunities. Soon strange things happen: it snows heavily in midsummer, a crop circle appears, a pupil steps onto the railway tracks, swastikas show up on the walls. Daniel is blamed for all of it, and he starts a fight against the villagers, through an adolescence full of wrong turns and abysses, comedy and brutality, in the north-west German provinces.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

800 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, 1970s–1990s

First published

2011 by DuMont Buchverlag

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9783832185664 (original)

9780857423375 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

9781803091976 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

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