Schadenfreude, a Love Story: Me, the Germans, and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations

✍ Scribed by Schuman, Rebecca

• Book ID: 109853282
• Publisher: Flatiron Books
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 368 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250077578

✦ Synopsis

"This book is a wild and wonderful ride. Your guide, Rebecca Schuman, is a super-smart and very funny person who writes brilliantly about Germany and Germans (who are not what you think) and being young and insane and life in general and... just read it, OK?"
-Dave Barry

Sometimes Love Gets Lost in Translation

You know that feeling you get watching the elevator doors slam shut just before your toxic coworker can step in? Or seeing a parking ticket on a Hummer? There's a word for this mix of malice and joy, and the Germans (of course) invented it. It's Schadenfreude , deriving pleasure from others' misfortune. Misfortune happens to be a specialty of Slate columnist Rebecca Schuman--and this is great news for the Germans. For Rebecca adores the Vaterland with the kind of single-minded passion its Volk usually reserve for beer, soccer, and being right all the time.

Let's just say the affection isn't...