Wed March 23, 2016
Reading Christopher Kloeble: "Almost Everything Very Fast"
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Albert is nineteen, grew up in an orphanage, and never knew his mother. All his life Albert had to be a father to his father: Fred is a child trapped in the body of an old man. He spends his time reading encyclopedias, waves at green cars, and is known as the hero of a tragic bus accident. Albert senses that Fred, who has just been given five months left to live, is the only one who can help him learn more about his background.
With time working against them, Albert and Fred set out on an adventurous voyage of discovery that leads them via the underground sewers into the distant past--all the way back to a night in August 1912, and to the story of a forbidden love.
"Almost Everything Very Fast", Christopher Kloeble's U.S. debut, is a sensitive and dramatic family saga and page-turning road novel all in one.
Christopher Kloeble studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . He published his articles in a variety of German newspaper a.o. "Die Zeit", the "Süddeutschen Zeitung" and the "taz". Furthermore he was Writer in Residence at Cambridge (GB), the Goethe-Institut Bangalore (India ) and the German House in New York (USA). In 2015 he held the Max Kade Visiting Professor title at Dartmouth College in Hanover (USA). For his debut novel "Unter Einzelgängern" (Amongst loners) he was awarded wih the literary prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. In 2009 he released his short stories "Wenn es klopft" (When it´s knocking). His first screenplay "Inklusion" was filmed by the German TV station BR and received the ABU Prize. In 2012 he published the novel "Meistens alles sehr schnell" in Germany which has been realesed to the US with the title "Almost Everything Very Fast" in February 2016. He lives in Berlin and in Delhi.
In collaboration with Graywolf Press and Folio Books
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With time working against them, Albert and Fred set out on an adventurous voyage of discovery that leads them via the underground sewers into the distant past--all the way back to a night in August 1912, and to the story of a forbidden love.
"Almost Everything Very Fast", Christopher Kloeble's U.S. debut, is a sensitive and dramatic family saga and page-turning road novel all in one.
Christopher Kloeble studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . He published his articles in a variety of German newspaper a.o. "Die Zeit", the "Süddeutschen Zeitung" and the "taz". Furthermore he was Writer in Residence at Cambridge (GB), the Goethe-Institut Bangalore (India ) and the German House in New York (USA). In 2015 he held the Max Kade Visiting Professor title at Dartmouth College in Hanover (USA). For his debut novel "Unter Einzelgängern" (Amongst loners) he was awarded wih the literary prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. In 2009 he released his short stories "Wenn es klopft" (When it´s knocking). His first screenplay "Inklusion" was filmed by the German TV station BR and received the ABU Prize. In 2012 he published the novel "Meistens alles sehr schnell" in Germany which has been realesed to the US with the title "Almost Everything Very Fast" in February 2016. He lives in Berlin and in Delhi.
In collaboration with Graywolf Press and Folio Books
Albert is nineteen, grew up in an orphanage, and never knew his mother. All his life Albert had to be a father to his father: Fred is a child trapped in the body of an old man. He spends his time reading encyclopedias, waves at green cars, and is known as the hero of a tragic bus accident. Albert senses that Fred, who has just been given five months left to live, is the only one who can help him learn more about his background.
With time working against them, Albert and Fred set out on an adventurous voyage of discovery that leads them via the underground sewers into the distant past--all the way back to a night in August 1912, and to the story of a forbidden love.
"Almost Everything Very Fast", Christopher Kloeble's U.S. debut, is a sensitive and dramatic family saga and page-turning road novel all in one.
Christopher Kloeble studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . He published his articles in a variety of German newspaper a.o. "Die Zeit", the "Süddeutschen Zeitung" and the "taz". Furthermore he was Writer in Residence at Cambridge (GB), the Goethe-Institut Bangalore (India ) and the German House in New York (USA). In 2015 he held the Max Kade Visiting Professor title at Dartmouth College in Hanover (USA). For his debut novel "Unter Einzelgängern" (Amongst loners) he was awarded wih the literary prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. In 2009 he released his short stories "Wenn es klopft" (When it´s knocking). His first screenplay "Inklusion" was filmed by the German TV station BR and received the ABU Prize. In 2012 he published the novel "Meistens alles sehr schnell" in Germany which has been realesed to the US with the title "Almost Everything Very Fast" in February 2016. He lives in Berlin and in Delhi.
In collaboration with Graywolf Press and Folio Books
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With time working against them, Albert and Fred set out on an adventurous voyage of discovery that leads them via the underground sewers into the distant past--all the way back to a night in August 1912, and to the story of a forbidden love.
"Almost Everything Very Fast", Christopher Kloeble's U.S. debut, is a sensitive and dramatic family saga and page-turning road novel all in one.
Christopher Kloeble studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . He published his articles in a variety of German newspaper a.o. "Die Zeit", the "Süddeutschen Zeitung" and the "taz". Furthermore he was Writer in Residence at Cambridge (GB), the Goethe-Institut Bangalore (India ) and the German House in New York (USA). In 2015 he held the Max Kade Visiting Professor title at Dartmouth College in Hanover (USA). For his debut novel "Unter Einzelgängern" (Amongst loners) he was awarded wih the literary prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. In 2009 he released his short stories "Wenn es klopft" (When it´s knocking). His first screenplay "Inklusion" was filmed by the German TV station BR and received the ABU Prize. In 2012 he published the novel "Meistens alles sehr schnell" in Germany which has been realesed to the US with the title "Almost Everything Very Fast" in February 2016. He lives in Berlin and in Delhi.
In collaboration with Graywolf Press and Folio Books
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