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John Owen reads from Bude, Munk and Wieland’s Impact (Aufprall, © Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, München)

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Translated from the German, Aufprall is the story of a group of young squatters in West Berlin in the 1980s. Told from three narrative perspectives, it expertly blends the grand narrative and political urgency of the squatters' movement with the more human stories of two of the collective's members. The section I am reading from here comes from the first of these perspectives and shows off some of the novel's mock-epic humour as well as its atmosphere in the dingy bars of West Berlin at the height of the Cold War.

Author bio

Bude, Munk & Wieland are a collective of three writers. Although they have all published books in a variety of genres before, Aufprall is their first novel.

Twitter:   / budemunkwieland  

Translator bio

John Owen is a translator from German-English and a bookseller based in Berlin.

Twitter:   / jmlo1990  

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For rights info contact: Friederike Barakat friederike.barakat@hanser.de

The translator has obtained permission from the original rights holder to translate this sample and to share a recording of it on Translators Aloud.