CHRISTOPHER KLOEBLE:
ALMOST EVERYTHING VERY FAST

 
The CSULB German Club, along with CSULB’s Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures host author Christopher Kloeble for an on-campus public lecture and reading from his novel Almost Everything Very Fast  at the CSULB Multicultural Center. A discussion and reception follow the presentation.
 
Presented with the support of the Goethe-Institut and the Friends of Goethe
 
Almost Everything Very Fast  
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. He 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.
 
The CSULB Multicultural Center is located near the CSULB bookstore on the south side of the CSULB Campus.

INFO: CSULB Multicultural Center
 
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Christopher Kloeble is a German novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. He studied at the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig and at the University for Film and Television in Munich, and he has held teaching assignments and residencies in Germany, the US, UK, and India, among others. His plays U-Turn and Memory have been staged at major theatres in Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg, and Nuremberg. For his first novel Amongst Loners, he won the Jürgen Ponto Stiftung prize for best debut 2008; his second book A Knock at the Door appeared in 2009. The third, 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, was produced in 2011 and nominated for the Prix Europa 2012 for Best Movie Script. His most recent novel, The Shadows of the Salz Family, appeared in Germany in 2016. Kloeble lives in Berlin and Delhi, and is currently Max Kade Writer-in-Residence at the University of Arizona.