Intimate Brussels

Living amongst Eurocrats

by Martin Leidenfrost, translated by Carolina Stiberg

Book cover: Intimate Brussels

Extent: 237 pages

Publisher: Lexxion

Subjects: Recreation: Leisure, Sports, & Travel, Social Sciences 

Series: Edition Andreae

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2011)

ISBN: 9783869651569

Price: $17.00

In stock


In
Brussels, tens of thousands are defining regulations for five hundred
million. Civil servants, lob by ists, representatives, assistants,
politicians, interns. They negotiate seventy percent of our laws, but we
do not know their faces. For one year, Martin Leidenfrost explored
Europe’s capital and wrote fifty personal – tender, alienated,
mischievous – portraits. When he could not bear the Eurocrats,
Leidenfrost escaped: to the African neighbourhood, to the Finnish sauna,
to the Brussels window prostitutes and even to their Bulgarian
hometown. He visited an Albanian drug dealer and discovered the happiest
man in the world: a tobacco lobbyist. He follows every hint,
perseveres, does not want to give up until an issue opens up well and
truly. At the same time Martin Leidenfrost’s stories are always
entertaining – and time and again they show us a different side of the
Eurocrats

  • By (author) Martin Leidenfrost
  • Translated by Carolina Stiberg