- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate (16 April 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1872180485
- ISBN-13: 978-1872180489
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 744,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Partly a travel book, this is the story of a group of friends living in Berlin during the last days of the Wall. It is also a book about food, drugs, music, the nature of consumerism and the nature of freedom. Previous titles published by the author include "Like Punk Never Happened".
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It was very hard to get hold of this book two decades after its publication but the effort has certainly been worth it. In ten stories the author tells of his observations while living in West Berlin towards the late Eighties. It gives an interesting snapshot of the place at the time. But he also travels into East Germany and after the fall of the Wall, through other Communist countries. He mingles with people like you and me and observes them very closely in various situations. This lends his stories credibility while at the same time looking at these people and situations with the author's English eyes creates a number of funny situations. An excellent book, worth getting!
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15 Sep 2002
Funny and reflective, yet peppered with historical and philosophical asides, Once Upon a Time in the East is the human story of a group of friends from the East and West, caught up in the middle of the most profound changes in Europe since the Second World War.
Once Upon a Time in the East is Dave Rimmer's account of life in the shadow of the last days of the Wall, about the not-so-simple pursuit of fun in the East Bloc as dictatorships topple and regimes crumble all around. It is a travel book of sorts. It is a book about people who like their fun spiced with just a little danger. Moving between the looking-glass worlds of East and West Berlin and out into the countires fo old Warsaw Pact, this is a snapshot of the dying days of Stalinism. Here are riots in Romania and halluciantions in Prague, fun and games with border guards and black marketeers. Hooligans, dissidents, soldiers and secret olicemen, exiles and people who would be exiles if only they could somehow get over the border. This is about pushing your luck in police states, about getting stoned and going shippingin cummunist capitals, about trying to find a few beers in teh middle f a revolution. Along the way it is about food, drugs, music and nature of consumerism and the nature of freedom.
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