The Tango Player |
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| Author:
| Hein, Christoph |
| Translator:
| Boehm, Philip |
| Series title: | Writings from an Unbound Europe Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-1116-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1994 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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Set in 1968 Leipzig, Christoph Hein's novel is the story of Dallow, an apolitical academic who has just returned to civilian life after serving twenty-one months in prison. His crime: he was the substitute piano player in a student cabaret in which seditious verses were sung. Dallow returns to a life in of loveless sex, police harassment, and brutality, revealing how a corrupt system perverts all human interaction, and how lives are ruined by malicious caprice.
Set in 1968 Leipzig, Christoph Hein's novel is the story of Dallow, an apolitical academic who has just returned to civilian life after serving twenty-one months in prison. His crime: he was the substitute piano player in a student cabaret in which seditious verses were sung. Dallow returns to a life in of loveless sex, police harassment, and brutality, revealing how a corrupt system perverts all human interaction, and how lives are ruined by malicious caprice.