Author: Sibylle Berg, Tim Mohr
Narrator: Kwame Augustine
Unabridged: 17 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 12/27/2022
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, World Literature, Dystopian
Sibylle Berg is a Swiss-German author and playwright, and one of the most celebrated contemporary writers in the German-speaking world. Born in Weimar, Germany, they have written over 25 plays, 15 novels, and numerous anthologies and radio plays. Their work has been translated into 34 languages. Berg considers themselves part of the Straight Edge movement and identifies as nonbinary. Their novel, GRM, won the Swiss Book Prize. In 2020, they received Switzerland’s highest literary award, the Grand Prix Literature, for their work. They lives in Zurich.
Now Winner of the Swiss Book Prize 2019 Sibylle Berg's previous works have been translated into 35 languages, and - hey, English-speakers! - I have a hunch that this hyped up tome which is set in post-Brexit Britain will probably soon be available in English. In Germany, it's currently pretty hard to......more
What is satire allowed to do? Everything. And that's exactly what Sibylle Berg exploits. She stops at nothing. Women are beaten up and raped, as are children. Men abuse and masturbate and are bored. There is no ray of light, not a single one - over almost 600 pages, man is dissected and exhibited in......more
Ich mochte die Idee sehr und finde die Utopie leider gar nicht so utopisch, aber dass sich das Buch wie ein schlecht geschriebener Snuff-Porno (Absicht?) liest, hat mich arg gestört. Irgendwie hatte ich konstant das Gefühl, Frau Berg hört sich einfach selbst gern reden. Schade.......more