Meyer, Clemens: Im Stein
Bricks and mortar / Clemens Meyer ; translated by Katy Derbyshire.
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Meyer, Clemens (författare)
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Derbyshire, Katy (översättare)
- ISBN 9781910695197
- Second edition
- Publicerad: London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017
- Engelska 653 sidor
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Eins, Zwei, Drei -- The long night of the rider -- In the year 2525 -- Mandy, the bed is breaking -- Amalgam -- Eternity two -- On the border river -- The conference of whores -- Lights in the cathedral -- My huckleberry friend -- Steel town -- The Columbus butterfly -- Tokyo, year zero -- Early evening in Eden City -- The great coup -- Import / export 90 -- Faces -- Behind the mirrors -- Dead pigeon on Flughafenstrasse -- The Reinharz dream -- Transfer (bye-bye, my ladyboy) -- I'd like to get a horse one day --.
- Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. The focus is on the rise and fall of one man from football hooligan to large-scale landlord and service-provider for prostitutes to, ultimately, a man persecuted by those he once trusted. But we also hear other voices: many different women who work in prostitution, their clients, small-time gangsters, an ex-jockey searching for his drug-addict daughter, a businessman from the West, a girl forced into child prostitution, a detective, a pirate radio presenter…
Ämnesord
- Prostituerade (sao)
- Hallickar (sao)
- Tysklands återförening 1990 (sao)
- German fiction. (fast)
- Short stories, German. (fast)
- Pimps (LCSH)
- Prostitutes (LCSH)
- Östtyskland (sao)
- Tyskland (sao)
Genre
- Noveller (saogf)
- Short stories. (fast)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- He Skönlitteratur: engelska
Klassifikation
- 820 (DDC)
- Heef.01 (kssb/8)
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