Russian Disco

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Wladimir Kaminer

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Pages: 176 (Paperback)

ISBN: 0091886694

Pub: Ebury Press

Pub date: 2002-08-01

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 98946

Reader Reviews:

Dull as dishwater (1/2 people found this helpful)

We know from artists and Eastern Europe. We've been to Berlin many times. And no one in our household can get past page three. Where is the wit? the literary value? the luminous insight? Coming home from the disco, good book for falling asleep.

Refreshing. (2/3 people found this helpful)

A hugely entertaining collection of short stories about russian inmigrants, and the life of a literated yet disfranchised young artist, in after-the-wall Berlin. Wladimir Kaminer's outlook is predictably ironic, yet rarely he seem bitter, and he resists the temptation of turning his peers into larger-than-life bohemians. He doesn't even talk so much about himself as he do about friends and family, letting his personal point of view appear as the book goes on. "Russian Disco" is a great little book that's refreshingly unpretentious, yet manages to describe Berlin's streetlife accurately.

Good in German--English? (6/9 people found this helpful)

I read this book and "Schoenhauser Allee" last summer in Berlin and they are both wonderfully written, hilarious observations of the "real" Berlin. Kaminer's humor is unmissable in any language, though I must admit I haven't read the translations so I'm not sure how it came out. For anyone who's been to Berlin, the books are especially entertaining, as Kaminer gets behind the tourist facade and shows the true charm of this great city.
I recommend these stories wholeheartedly!

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