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Daniel Schreiber (Translated by Ben Fergusson)
(Reaktion Books)
“I never made a conscious decision to live alone,” writes Daniel Schreiber. Yet for much of his adult life, the Berlin-based writer has done just that, not only as a sole resident, but as a single person. The challenges and contours of a life spent largely alone is the subject of Schreiber’s reflective, elegantly written book – a bestseller in Germany and recently translated into English.
In eight essays, blending personal narrative and…
