tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86663373732400985192012-02-01T15:53:04.195-08:00DMCnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666337373240098519.post-65224025323891312102011-03-15T22:42:00.001-07:002012-02-01T15:53:04.207-08:00<div class="MsoNormal"><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>News: The Frankfurt Files' author in the real estate section of The New York Times: </b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/realestate/the-hunt-a-search-for-a-quiet-apartment.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/realestate/the-hunt-a-search-for-a-quiet-apartment.html</a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><div style="color: black;"><br /><div style="color: black;"><b>Book Description&nbsp;</b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Ever hear of a log-sawing ritual at a wedding ceremony? Or renting an apartment with kitchen space, but no kitchen? How about having to bring birthday cake to work on your own birthday?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In <i>The Frankfurt Files: Tales of an American in Germany</i>, David Conte moves overseas to Frankfurt, Germany, so he can save his relationship with his now-wife. But when he later finds himself having to relearn life in a very different way, his storybook romance becomes one big lesson in surviving culture shock: hauling a couch up a flight of stairs alone after being abandoned by callous furniture movers; participating in civilized nudity at a local wellness center; addressing the all-important issue of cream cheese abuse in German sandwiches. As a discerning idealist turned maladroit idiot among foreigners, he relates the good, the bad, and the in-between of his offbeat encounters as an expatriate. </div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8666337373240098519-6522402532389131210?l=thefrankfurtfiles.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DMCnoreply@blogger.com