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Small Machine by Demi Anter
Small Machine by Demi Anter
Demi Anter's Small Machine is an intimate portrayal of young womanhood and coming of age in an unforgiving city, the capital known as much for raucous hedonism as it is for Kaffee-und-Kuchen.
Small Machine documents Anter’s early years in Berlin as a sort-of-Ausländerin. The first-generation daughter of German- speaking immigrants raised in the U.S., Anter explores the tension of returning to the city her grandfather was born in, where her father was stationed, as an adult disconnected from her family history. New York Times bestselling author Chanel Miller calls it "strikingly luminous and soothing."
I think love is a many-headed beast
waiting to fool you into trying.
Lurking under the newspaper, in broom cupboards.
Waiting on park benches, cigarettes drooping
from his glossy mouth.
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Demi Anter is an award-winning writer and performer, based in Berlin since 2016. Her work has been published in the US, Europe, and the UK. She's featured at Glastonbury Festival, Bristol Old Vic, Poetry Ireland, BBC Radio London and more. She teaches aound the world, including England's Royal National Theatre.
