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Kruso
Kruso
Lutz Seiler (born 1963)
Translated by Tess Lewis
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Kruso
Scribe · United States · 12 June 2018 · Paperback · 480 pages
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When disaster strikes, Edgar Bendler flees his life and becomes a dishwasher on Hiddensee, the Baltic island that legend says lies outside of time. In the kitchen of the Klausner, an inn high above the sea, Ed meets Alexander Krusowitsch, known as Kruso, and a difficult, tender friendship begins. Kruso, the master of the island's seasonal workers, initiates him into their rituals and the laws of their nights. The island draws misfits, free spirits and people hoping to escape the GDR across the sea. Then the autumn of 1989 shakes the island, in a story of a personal and a historical shipwreck.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 480 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1989
- First published
- 2014 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
9783518424476 (original)
9781911344001 (Scribe, United Kingdom)
9781947534117 (Scribe, United States)
- More
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