false 4727202 3 <p>East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Türmer, man of the theater, secret novelist, turns his back on art and signs on to work at a newly started newspaper. Freed from the compulsion to describe the world, he plunges into everyday life. Under the guidance of his Mephisto, the ever-present Clemens von Barrista, the former aesthete suddenly develops worldly ambitions even he didn&#8217;t know he had.<br><br>This upheaval in our hero&#8217;s life, mirrored in the vaster upheaval gripping Germany itself after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the birth pangs of a reunified nation, is captured in the letters Enrico writes to the three people he loves most: his sister, Vera; his childhood friend Johann; and Nicoletta, the unattainable woman of his dreams. As he discovers capitalism and reports on his adventures as a businessman, he peels away the layers of his previous existence, in the process creating the thing he has dreamed of for so long&#8212;the novel of his own life, in whose facets contemporary history is captured. Thus Enrico comes to embody all the questionable aspects not only of life in the old Germany, but of life in the Germany just taking form.<br><br>Once again Ingo Schulze proves himself a master storyteller, with an inimitable power to reconjure the complete insanity of this wildest time in postwar German history. As its comic chronicler, he unfurls a panorama of a world in transformation&#8212;and the birth of a new era.</p> 4791679 2005 New Lives total:6|5:1|4:2|3:1|1:2| 6 18 28 2 0 0 false false Fri Dec 19 11:23:15 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 11:23:50 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jan 31 11:02:02 -0800 2009 Sat May 09 12:07:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 08:31:38 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:31:38 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 11:32:24 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 11:32:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 13 06:16:37 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 06:16:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 19 21:02:11 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 16:56:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 22 17:53:05 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 17:53:05 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Fri Apr 17 02:01:51 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 09:57:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 16 13:11:10 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 13:11:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 21:26:44 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 21:26:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 26 11:23:08 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 12:59:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 27 17:17:51 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 17:17:58 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Dec 27 09:30:20 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 09:30:20 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Dec 19 11:40:46 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 11:40:48 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Dec 16 17:44:15 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 17:44:15 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Dec 15 08:00:17 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:00:17 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Nov 12 19:01:20 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 19:01:30 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 10 07:55:08 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 07:55:11 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Jan 03 08:41:52 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 05 15:58:30 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 08:41:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 05 08:47:12 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 08:47:12 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4727202