Das Leben. Gebrauchsanweisung

The pivotal point of Georges Perec's cult classic, finally available again in the regular book trade, is a Parisian apartment building that presents 99 chapters with just as many rooms, and whose staff (residents and visitors, predecessors and lovers, relatives and exiles...), who count exactly 1467 figures, weave an unparalleled novel on it. Irresistibly drawn into gripping, exciting, funny, incredible, gruesome and crazy stories ("Story of the unlucky motorcyclist", "...of the girl who was too fat, and his tower", "...of the misunderstood anthropologist", "...of the girl who was too fat,")....from the interior designer who had the kitchen torn down again, of which he was so proud", "...from the Warsaw clown", "...from the man who painted watercolours and made puzzles out of them" etc.), we read of loneliness and entanglement, failure and happiness and so on.