SMALLTOWNNOVELLA book launch with translator Lucy Jones

Join us in the Berlin launch of SMALLTOWNNOVELLA by Ronald M. Schernikau, translated into English for the first time by Lucy Jones.

A classic of the queer German canon, Schernikau’s 1980 Kleinstadtnovelle follows b, a teenage, working-class communist who falls in love with leif, a popular jock. When leif becomes fearful of the consequences of their affair, he instigates a community-wide assault. Written in a brilliant, all-lowercase, stream-of-consciousness, Schernikau’s novella is a radical reimagining of the German Bildungsroman.

A reading of the novella will be followed by a conversation between translator Lucy Jones and UDP editor C. Bain.

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