German author reads from translated work Nov 1 @ 7pm in Kitchener

[Lori Straus]

"Moving… Kloeble’s cinematic vision and vivid storytelling encompass a range of human emotion and iniquity.”—Publishers Weekly

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Almost Everything Very Fast, Christopher Kloeble’s US debut, is a sensitive and dramatic family saga and page-turning road novel all in one. Albert is nineteen, grew up in an orphanage, and never knew his mother. All his life Albert had to be a father to his father: Fred is a child trapped in the body of an old man. Fred spends his time reading encyclopedias, waves at green cars, and is known as the hero of a tragic bus accident. Albert senses that Fred, who has just been given five months left to live, is the only one who can help him learn more about his background. With time working against them, Albert and Fred set out on an adventurous voyage of discovery that leads them via the underground sewers into the distant past—all the way back to a night in August 1912, and to the story of a forbidden love.

Join us for a Reading and Q&A Session With Christopher Kloeble
Date: Tuesday, November 1
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Kitchener Public Library, 85 Queen St. N., Kitchener
Cost: Free admission

For more information, please visit our website<http://wcgs.ca/>.

About the Author
Christopher Kloeble is a German novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. He studied at the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig<http://www.deutsches-literaturinstitut.de/> and at the University for Film and Television in Munich<http://www.hff-muenchen.de/en_EN>, and he has held teaching assignments and residencies in Germany, the US, UK, and India, among others. His plays U-Turn<http://www.dreimaskenverlag.de/titel/wenn-moeglich-bitte-wenden> and Memory<http://www.dreimaskenverlag.de/titel/memory-morgen-war-gestern> have been staged at major theatres in Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg, and Nuremberg. For his first novel, Amongst Loners<http://www.dtv.de/books/amongst_loners_24665.html>, he won the Juergen Ponto-Stiftung<https://www.commerzbank.de/de/juergen_ponto_stiftung/home_3/index.html> prize for best debut 2008; his second book, A Knock at the Door<http://www.dtv.de/books/a_knock_at_the_door_24720.html?show=other>, appeared in 2009. The third, Almost Everything Very Fast<https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/almost-everything-very-fast>, which Kloeble is currently adapting as a feature film, was published in English with Graywolf Press (USA). His first film script, Inclusion<http://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendungen/inklusion/index.html>, was produced in 2011 and nominated for the Prix Europa<http://prixeuropa.eu/home> 2012 for Best Movie Script. His new novel, The Shadows of the Salz Family<http://www.dtv.de/books/the_shadows_of_the_salz_family_28092.html>, was just released in August. Kloeble lives in Berlin and Delhi.

[cid:image004.png at 01D22876.E464D0F0]<https://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/en/sta/tor.html?wt_sc=toronto>Christopher Kloeble appears
as a guest of the Goethe-Institut
Toronto.



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Lori Straus
Administrative Assistant
Waterloo Centre for German Studies<https://artsonline.uwaterloo.ca/wcgs/>
University of Waterloo<http://uwaterloo.ca/>

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