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By Lutz Seiler Scribe Publications, UK , Scribe US June The lyrical, bestselling German Book Prize winner In the summer of , a young literature student named Ed travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee, fleeing unspeakable tragedy. Long shrouded in myth, the island is a. Home» Germany» Lutz Seiler» Kruso (Kruso) Lutz Seiler: Kruso (Kruso) Edgar Bendler, known as Ed, thanks to his girlfriend, has been studying German literature at an East German university. Indeed, he has been given the task of writing about Georg Trakl, the expressionist poet. He had a girlfriend, known only as G., who was an English teacher but who had died, knocked down by a tram. Lutz Seiler: 'Kruso'. Two "castaways" meet in an isolated GDR outpost in in Lutz Seiler's celebrated debut novel that questions the meaning of freedom and friendship, and that won the

Lutz Seiler. Tess Lewis (Translator) Scribe Publications () Softcover $ (pp) Edgar Bendler is twenty-four years old and lost in his loss. His girlfriend is gone—perhaps missing, perhaps dead. His cat, too. Life between university terms looms, and without the distraction of study, Ed is likely to throw. Kruso, by Lutz Seiler, translated by Tess Lewis. Kruso, winner of the German Book Prize and the English PEN Award, derives some of its symbolism from the story of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, first published in Crusoe is well-known to many readers from the children's edition in which Crusoe is shipwrecked on an island, survives and. Kruso Audible Audiobook - Abridged Lutz Seiler (Author), Franz Dinda (Narrator), HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH (Publisher) 0 more out of 5 stars ratings.

Kruso. ISBN Author: Lutz Seiler, translated by Tess Lewis. Publisher: Scribe. Guideline Price: £ The lyrical, bestselling German Book Prize winner. It is , and a young literature student named Ed, fleeing unspeakable tragedy, travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee. Long shrouded in myth, the island is a notorious destination for hippies, idealists, and those at odds with the East German state. On the island, Ed stumbles upon the Klausner, Hiddensee’s most popular restaurant, and ends up washing dishes there, despite his lack of papers. “Lutz Seiler, winner of the English PEN Award and German Book Prize, brings a tumultuous debut novel to an English-speaking audience. Set on a bohemian Baltic coastal island, this novel of a cult of personality during the last days of the Soviet occupation of the GDR grips readers just as Kruso’s charisma grips our protagonist.”.