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Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient, " is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed. When he shaves his head, his girlfriend scolds him, "What have you done to your head? I don't want to be with a prisoner from a concentration camp!" He is supposed to giv...

A story of 3 polar bears: a memorist who flees the Soviet Union, a dancer in an East Berlin circus, and Knut, a baby bear born in Berlin Zoo. A reflection on our own humanity through the stories of these bears.

Trade paperback. Based on a true story, this novel from the Japanese German author of "The Naked Eye" is the story of three polar bears. One flees the Soviet Union, one is a dancer in an East Berlin circus, and the third, Knut, is a baby bear born in Berlin Zoo in the 21st century.

Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as "a spectacular journey through a world of colliding languages and multiplying cities." In these stories' disparate settings-Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany-the reader becomes as much a foreigner as the author, or the figures that fill this book: the ghost of a burned woman, a traveler on t...

A precocious Vietnamese high school student - known as the pupil with "the iron blouse"-in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on "Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism, " she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductor-and thoug...