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The adventures of a bed salesman

This picaresque tale of a sexually voracious bed salesman whose life is dominated by his adventures with women opens in l962 as thirty-year-old Heinrich Hampel crosses the Berlin Wall leaving the West for East. This is not a political gesture but a desperate attempt to escape debt and the sexual mayhem caused by his bold selling techniques. Charming his way into the hearts and beds of his female customers (in Bavaria in the l950s), Heinrich doubles his turnover, but when an expensive mistress appears, his long-suffering wife Rosa has cause to worry. Despite the postwar economic miracle, Heinrich's debts build until he is forced to flee across the border and take up his old ways in the East. From this audacious and outlandish opening, the novel builds up a mosaic of Hampel's life. As fresh as it is provocative, Michael KumpfmUller's first novel was a bestselling literary sensation in Germany.

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  • "Hampels Fluchten. English"

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  • "Een handelaar in bedden vlucht van West- naar Oost-Duitsland om aan zijn schuldeisers te ontkomen."
  • "Heinrich Hampeln, vendeur de lits endetté, décide en 1962, peu de temps après la construction du mur de Berlin, de partir vivre à l'Ouest afin d'échapper à ses conquêtes trop envahissantes et à ses créanciers."
  • "This picaresque tale of a sexually voracious bed salesman whose life is dominated by his adventures with women opens in l962 as thirty-year-old Heinrich Hampel crosses the Berlin Wall leaving the West for East. This is not a political gesture but a desperate attempt to escape debt and the sexual mayhem caused by his bold selling techniques. Charming his way into the hearts and beds of his female customers (in Bavaria in the l950s), Heinrich doubles his turnover, but when an expensive mistress appears, his long-suffering wife Rosa has cause to worry. Despite the postwar economic miracle, Heinrich's debts build until he is forced to flee across the border and take up his old ways in the East. From this audacious and outlandish opening, the novel builds up a mosaic of Hampel's life. As fresh as it is provocative, Michael KumpfmUller's first novel was a bestselling literary sensation in Germany."@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Picaresque literature"
  • "Picaresque literature"@en
  • "Powieść niemiecka"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Political fiction"
  • "Translations"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Fugue en lit mineur : roman"
  • "The adventures of a bed salesman"@en
  • "The adventures of a bed salesman"
  • "Hampels Fluchten"
  • "The adventures of a bed salesman a novel"@en
  • "Hampels Fluchten : Roman"
  • "Hampels Fluchten : roman"
  • "Hampels Fluchten Roman"
  • "Fugues en lit mineur"
  • "Hempels fluchten"
  • "Fugue en lit mineur roman"
  • "The Adventures of a Bed Salesman"
  • "Lotgevallen van een beddenverkoper"
  • "Hampelin edesottamukset"@fi
  • "Hampelin edesottamukset"

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