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Bricks and Mortar
Clemens Meyer
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Description for Bricks and Mortar
Paperback. BRICKS AND MORTAR is a novel about 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. Translator(s): Derbyshire, Katy. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 45. Weight in Grams: 616.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910695197
SKU
V9781910695197
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Clemens Meyer
Clemens Meyer was born 1977 in Halle and lives in Leipzig. After high school he jobbed as a watchman, building worker and removal man. He studied creative writing at the German Literary Institute, Leipzig and was granted a scholarship by the Saxon Ministry of Science and Arts in 2002. His first novel ALS WIR TRAUMTEN was a huge success and ... Read more
Reviews for Bricks and Mortar
'A journey to the end of the night for 20/21st century Germany. Meyer reworks Doblin and Celine into a modern epic prose film with endless tracking shots of the gash of urban life, bought flesh and the financial transaction (the business of sex); memory as unspooling corrupted tape; journeys as migrations, as random as history and its splittings. A shimmering ... Read more