Berlin is a place where brazen ghosts wave to the living, where rock 'n' roll suicides collide with family myths. 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. Falling in love (and out) in Schillerkiez, clandestine encounters in smoke-filled Kneipen, nighttime dances by the Spree, winter depressions weathered, summer lakes plundered- no cobble is left unturned in Anter's soaring debut.
TESTIMONIALS
Strikingly luminous and soothing. In Anter's realm, sadness is not a sour or unwelcome thing, but worthy of tender examination. This book celebrates existing through the moments we once believed to be unbearable. —CHANEL MILLER
A layered and joyous exploration of life in all of its complexities. Gets you in the gut, the heart and the soul. A must read. —CAT HEPBURN
An achingly beautiful Berlin journey of colour and courage, coiled fear and love's lushness, sunned summer skin and dawns of swirled raspberry; poems that grasp for the truest words and bring joy into the world. —RORY MACLEAN
Small Machine is a finely created and painfully good love letter. It is a love letter to Berlin, to being 27, a love letter, even, to sorrow itself. There are books that put you in another life and books that make you grateful for life itself — this one is both. —ERIN FORNOFF
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DEMI ANTER is an Austrian-American writer and performer. Her work has appeared in Magma, Banshee, Ninth Letter, Figure 1, and The Times UK as well as on BBC Radio London. She has been a featured performer at Glastonbury Festival, Electric Picnic, the Scottish Storytelling Centre, and Poetry Ireland. After five years in Berlin, she now lives in London where she is completing an MFA at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance.
Cover artwork © Emma Hursey
Berlin is a place where brazen ghosts wave to the living, where rock 'n' roll suicides collide with family myths. 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. Falling in love (and out) in Schillerkiez, clandestine encounters in smoke-filled Kneipen, nighttime dances by the Spree, winter depressions weathered, summer lakes plundered- no cobble is left unturned in Anter's soaring debut.
TESTIMONIALS
Strikingly luminous and soothing. In Anter's realm, sadness is not a sour or unwelcome thing, but worthy of tender examination. This book celebrates existing through the moments we once believed to be unbearable. —CHANEL MILLER
A layered and joyous exploration of life in all of its complexities. Gets you in the gut, the heart and the soul. A must read. —CAT HEPBURN
An achingly beautiful Berlin journey of colour and courage, coiled fear and love's lushness, sunned summer skin and dawns of swirled raspberry; poems that grasp for the truest words and bring joy into the world. —RORY MACLEAN
Small Machine is a finely created and painfully good love letter. It is a love letter to Berlin, to being 27, a love letter, even, to sorrow itself. There are books that put you in another life and books that make you grateful for life itself — this one is both. —ERIN FORNOFF
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DEMI ANTER is an Austrian-American writer and performer. Her work has appeared in Magma, Banshee, Ninth Letter, Figure 1, and The Times UK as well as on BBC Radio London. She has been a featured performer at Glastonbury Festival, Electric Picnic, the Scottish Storytelling Centre, and Poetry Ireland. After five years in Berlin, she now lives in London where she is completing an MFA at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance.
Cover artwork © Emma Hursey
