older book Herrndorf's "Sand"

Tue Dec 4 15:57:22 CST 2018

I love "Sand" and wonder how "Schamott" in the final, devastating sentence 
was translated into English.
Herrndorf's breakthrough was "Tschick" ('Why We Took the Car') which is very 
different but also highly recommended. He was also a very accomplished 
painter.

"Sand" was at least partly written while Herrndorf was suffering from brain 
cancer (he eventually committed suicide; his by turns harrowing, 
fascinating, funny, sad and very literary diary/blog "Arbeit und Struktur" 
has been published as a book and is still online).

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:52:00 -0500
  Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Any body else read or have thoughts on Herrndorf’s Sand? 
>Moves like GR from comic to grim dark but beautifully 
>crafted and upsettingy realistic.
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