Schadenfreude, a love story : me, the Germans, and 20 years of attempted transformations, unfortunate miscommunications, and humiliating situations that only they have words for
(2017)
By:
Schuman, Rebecca
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/SCHUMAN,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Flatiron Books, 2017
©2017
©2017
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
274 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781250077578, 1250077575
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Jugendsünde -- Sprachgefühl -- Lebensraum -- Schriftverkehr -- Ostalgie -- Wohngemeinschaft -- Liebeskummer -- Ereignis -- Schadenfreude
"A debut book by the education columnist for Slate traces her experiences as a Jewish teen intellectual whose fateful relationship with a boy who introduced her to Kafka inspired her love for German language and culture,"--NoveList