About the Book : The Short End of the Sonnenallee
Thomas Brussigs classic German satire, translated into English for the first
time and introduced by Jonathan Franzen, is a comedic, moving account of life in
East Berlin before the Fall of the Berlin Wall Thomas Brussigs slim novel, The
Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee,
the famed "boulevard of the sun" in East Berlin.
Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule
whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the
observation platform on the West side. "Look, a real