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Tango Player, Paperback / softback Book

Tango Player Paperback / softback

Part of the Writings from an Unbound Europe series

Paperback / softback

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Set in 1968 Leipzig, Christoph Hein's novel is the story of Dallow, an apolitical academic who has just returned to civilian life after serving twenty-one months in prison.

His crime: he was the substitute piano player in a student cabaret in which seditious verses were sung.

Dallow returns to a life in of loveless sex, police harassment, and brutality, revealing how a corrupt system perverts all human interaction, and how lives are ruined by malicious caprice.

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