Fire Doesn t Burn

Rothman, Ralf

ISBN 10: 085742047X / ISBN 13: 9780857420473

Published by Seagull Books, 2012

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Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic border. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Series: The German List. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 494. . 2012. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fire Doesn t Burn
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 085742047X
• ISBN 13: 9780857420473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Müggelsee, at the city's bucolic border, where the differences between East and West have not yet faded and strange encounters with men from the vanished republic are still a part of daily life. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina. The monotony of life in their comfortable apartment gives way, however, when an old girlfriend surfaces and Wolf escapes his boredom into a torrid affair. As Wolf’s struggle with his infidelity grows, so grows the hell of his concealment.

 

Called “a grand master of his craft” by Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and “among the best and brightest that contemporary German literature has to offer” by Fuldaer Zeitung, Ralf Rothmann is one of Germany’s most gifted writers. Fire Doesn’t Burn is a dark recasting of the delicate reunification of East and West as a chronicle of erotic desire and an extraordinary rediscovery of emotion and place.

 

“Fire Doesn’t Burn is intense and tragic, and unquestionably Rothmann's most personal work.”—Peter Mohr,

Kleine Zeitung

About the Authors

Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist, whose novels have been translated into several languages. His most recent novel translated into English was Knife Edge. WielandHoban is a British composer who lives in Germany. He has translated several works from German, including many by Theodor W. Adorno.

Mike Mitchell has worked as a literary translator since 1995. He was awarded the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Herbert Rosendorfer’s Letters Back to Ancient China. For Seagull Books, he has translated works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Peter Handke, among others.