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Chris Kraus

Dance on Shards

Published by Diogenes as Scherbentanz

Original Title: Scherbentanz

Jesko is a freak, a young fashion designer who likes to wear skirts. He doesn’t conform to social norms and restraints - he has leukaemia, and doesn’t have long to live. Under a pretense, Jesko is lured to his family’s upper-class villa. His mother is being considered as a bone marrow donor, but Jesko refuses her help.
Because, long ago, this woman treated him and his brother terribly.

With Chris Kraus’ irresistible black humour and wit.

Contemporary Literature
256 pages
2020

978-3-257-07135-1

Chris

Kraus

Chris Kraus, born in 1963 in Göttingen, is a writer, scriptwriter and filmmaker. His films, which have achieved international renown (including Dance on Shards and Poll) have received multiple awards, including seven ›German Film Prizes‹. Chris Kraus has published four novels. His literary breakthrough, the family epic Cold Blood, was translated into numerous languages and became a bestseller in France and Spain. The author lives in Berlin.

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Passauer Neue Presse, Passau

»In its merciless reckoning, in its disclosure of domestic madness, but also in its descriptions of emotional moments, this is a timelessly relevant book.«

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