num_pages: 176
description: Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the émigrés in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style reminiscent of the great humorists. [Several of his European editors make a comparison with current bestseller David Sedaris.] Kaminer manages to say a great deal without seeming to say much at all. He speaks about the offbeat personal events of his own life but captures something universal about our disjointed times.
language: English
title: Russian Disco
titlecomplete: Russian Disco
genres: Short Stories, Humor, Russia, Jewish, German Literature, Germany, Novels, Russian Literature, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 2888
places: Berlin
publisher: Ebury Press