33 Moments of Happiness: St. Petersburg Stories

by Ingo Schulze

Book Overview

An enchanting, fabulously bizarre and intriguing book of short stories by a prizewinning new German writer. Each episode in this dazzling debut collection captures the spark in some tiny detail of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037540029X
• ISBN13: 9780375400292
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The German Moorcock

The closest ambitious writer I could think of to compare Schulze with is Michael Moorcock (in his Mother London/Cornelius Quartet mode) and if you like Moorcock (who influenced comics, cyberpunk the whole noir revival in the US) you'll go with Schulze's flow just as easily. I am a fan of both writers, though not of Moorcock's fantasy, which I liked as a kid, and I've been looking for years for a writer as good. This and Simple Stories are really outstanding. Schulze is a definite heavy weight on his way up. It's been a while since Germany showed us a writer as good and as ambitious as this. Wonderful work.

beautiful moments

each of the 33 stories in this book prvided me with vivid places and deleicate people. the stories made me cry and laugh. this is one of the greatest collections of short stories i have read and it provided me with a true sense of beauty and honesty, about peole and life and the value of moments.