older book Herrndorf's "Sand"

[Richard Ryan]

Perhaps if you plunge in, Mark, other penguins will follow.  On the subject of Herrndorf’s Sand - I note that Wikipedia only has a stub about it.  Here’s someone’s chance to craft of small piece of Wikipedia’s contemporary world fiction domain.
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From: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org> on behalf of Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 1:12:14 PM
To: Thomas Eckhardt
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Subject: Re: older book Herrndorf's "Sand"

What I would like to know, self-interestedly and self-mergingly, is who
wants to read ANNIVERSARIES with me?

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 5:03 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> 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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