by Jurek Becker · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518367711
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«Irreführung der Behörden» is the novel by Jurek Becker, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (260 pages, in German).
Set in Berlin in the 1960s, the novel follows Gregor, a law student trying to make his way as a writer. With irony and humour, it portrays life in the German Democratic Republic: bureaucracy, personal relationships and conflicts with the authorities.
Originally published in 1973, it belongs to the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch collection (volume 271) and was awarded the Bremer Literaturpreis.
For readers interested in contemporary German fiction and everyday life in the GDR.
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.
