Sunday, December 24, 2006
Sour Krauts? Not a bit of it
Roger Boyes in The Times of London explains how he came to write the soon-to-be-published My Dear Krauts.
Here's an extract.
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
People who buy this book might also enjoy German Humor: On the Fritz, by John Louis Anderson. I found the chapter "The Slow Grinding of Teutonic Plates: Catholics and Lutherans Meet Head-On" put my interactions with my WELS colleagues in a different light. ¶ 12/24/2006 07:22:00 AM
I have made my separate peace. On behalf of all former Biggles readers I would like to say: it really is time to stop mentioning the war and shed half a century of heel-clicking clichés. To this end I have written what one British observer has described as a Truth and Reconciliation Book, a lightly fictionalised memoir of a correspondent’s clashes with his confusing host culture.
Here's an extract.
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
People who buy this book might also enjoy German Humor: On the Fritz, by John Louis Anderson. I found the chapter "The Slow Grinding of Teutonic Plates: Catholics and Lutherans Meet Head-On" put my interactions with my WELS colleagues in a different light. ¶ 12/24/2006 07:22:00 AM
