Thursday, October 15, 2015

Frank Witgel gets German Book Prize for his "The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a Manic-Depressive Teenager in the Summer of 1969."

Ever seen such a long title for a book?  I like it though because the title tells exactly what you can expect to get out of the book.

The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a Manic-Depressive Teenager in the Summer of 1969 weighs one kilo and has 99 chapters that mix all kind of genres.

Yes, this is the German-book of the year. Witgel took fifteen years to write this book.

The German Book Prize honors a brilliant linguistic work of art that is a vast quarry of words and ideas - a hybrid compendium of pop, politics and paranoia

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