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The World at My Back
Die Welt im Rücken
Thomas Melle (born 1975)
Translated by Luise von Flotow
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The World at My Back
Biblioasis · Canada · 2023 · Paperback
The World at My Back
Biblioasis · Canada · 2 May 2023 · Ebook
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For many years, the author has lived with manic depression, also called bipolar disorder. Here he tells of it: of personal dramas and slow improvement, and of what goes on inside someone with the illness. With precision he describes his self gone haywire in a firework of neurons, putting the distorted, heightened perception of his paranoid psychosis into words. Chronicling the manic and depressive episodes that drive him through clubs, concert halls and clinics, he sketches, almost in passing, the mood of today's pop culture, in a book that hurts and shakes and is at times very funny.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 347 pages in the original
- First published
- 2016 by Rowohlt Berlin
- Author's age
- 41 when first published
- ISBN
9783871341700 (original)
9781771964524 (Biblioasis, Canada)
9781771964517 (Biblioasis, Canada)
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