Star 111

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Star 111
Author Lutz Seiler
Original titleStern 111
Translator Tess Lewis
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Publisher Suhrkamp Verlag
Publication date
2 March 2020
Published in English
6 September 2023
Pages528
ISBN 978-3-518-42925-9

Star 111 (German : Stern 111) is a 2020 novel by the German writer Lutz Seiler. It follows the East German bricklayer and student Carl Bischoff during his everyday life in Berlin at the time of the German reunification. [1] [2] [3] [4]

The book received the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. [5]

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