Against the World
Brandt, Jan Against the World is a great German novel, a sweeping story of how history changes a village, how pop culture changes the provinces, how friendship changes individuals. East Friesia in the mid-1970s. Cows graze in the meadows and low-flying combat planes rend the bucolic silence. The hedges on the estate are neatly trimmed, the new cars freshly polished on the driveways. This is the world into which Daniel Kuper, the son of a dynasty of druggi...