You might also like

More about Heroes Like Us

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 41 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Provocative and hilarious, "Heroes Like Us" was the first novel to comment on the downfall of East Germany by an author who had grown up with the Berlin Wall. Klaus Uhltzscht, born in 1968 in East Germany, grows up across the street from the Ministry of State Security, and he is inspired early on to do his share to win the Cold War. Naturally he joins the Secret Police, but his glorious career as an international agent never materializes. Instead, he spends countless hours keeping his fellow citizens under close surveillance -- never quite sure what he is looking for. Frustrated on all counts, Klaus’s life is changed only when a strange accident in the fall of 1989 dramatically alters the size of his penis.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Heroes Like Us
• Author: Thomas Brussig
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780374527600
• ISBN: 0374527601
• ID: 02933344
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Weight: 388 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. December 1996

Trending among others

---

---

---