Wladimir Kaminer

It's Berlin's Trainspotting, only without the drugs

Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. <i>Russian Disco</i> 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 <i>Goodbye to Berlin</i>.    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.

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