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.
| ISBN: | 9780091886691 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 2002 |
| Author: | Wladimir Kaminer |
| Publisher: | Ebury Press an imprint of Ebury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Biography: general Shorter Reads |