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Zandschower Klinken
“Zandschow Door Handles” (title translated by AI)
Thomas Kunst (born 1965)
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Bengt Claasen sits in his car, everything he owns in the boot and the collar of his dead dog on the dashboard. Wherever it falls off, he will stop and start a new life. He ends up in Zandschow, a backwater in the far north-east. The villagers, gathered around the local drinks shop, follow a strict weekly plan, and they no longer accept their precarious lives in the middle of nowhere: their village is Zanzibar, their pond an ocean, and here you can be poor and live in paradise, with plenty of madness and absurd rituals. Beneath the utopia runs a bitter family story, told like a fairy tale in code.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 253 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2021 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 56 when first published
- ISBN
9783518429921 (original)
- More
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