{"product_id":"berlin-stories-hardcover","title":"Berlin Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Hensher\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Berlin, by an international array of brilliant writers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning more than a century, this collection of stories reflects Berlin's rich and turbulent history, chronicling the creative ferment of the Weimar Republic, the devastation of wartime, the cruel divisions of the Berlin Wall, and the aftermath of reunification. Classics by Theodor Fontane and Robert Walser provide a window on privileged society at the turn of the century. Alfred D blin, Erich Kastner, Vladimir Nabokov, and Christopher Isherwood illuminate the frenetic Golden Twenties and the ruinous crash that followed, while marginal youths roam the city's seamy underside in Irmgard Keun's \u003ci\u003eThe Artificial Silk Girl\u003c\/i\u003e and Ernst Haffner's \u003ci\u003eBlood Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e. The hero of Thomas Wolfe's \u003ci\u003eYou Can't Go Home Again\u003c\/i\u003e visits a city shadowed by Hitler's rise, while in Hans Fallada's \u003ci\u003eAlone in Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e a working-class couple quietly resists the Nazis. Cold War espionage enlivens works by Len Deighton and Ian McEwan; Christa Wolf's \u003ci\u003eThey Divided the Sky \u003c\/i\u003eand Peter Schneider's \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Jumper\u003c\/i\u003e depict the Berlin Wall's impact on a personal scale; and Thomas Brussig's Stasi officers engage in meaningless surveillance in Heroes Like Us. G nter Grass shows us German reunification through the eyes of an elderly Luftwaffe veteran while Uwe Timm does so through a writer's madcap wanderings in a bewildering post-Wall landscape. Finally, more recent arrivals--from Chloe Aridjis's Mexican-Jewish university student in \u003ci\u003eBook of Clouds \u003c\/i\u003eto the desperate African refugees in Jenny Erpenbeck's \u003ci\u003eGo, Went, Gone\u003c\/i\u003e--bear witness to Berlin's continuing evolution as an arena of the possible.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Hensher's novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Northern Clemency, \u003c\/i\u003e which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eKitchen Venom, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mulberry Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Chosen by \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e as one of its Best Young British Novelists, he is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University and a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Spectator, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Independent\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.2 x 4.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772757737760,"sku":"9781101908174","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/424b020a47f99529aa5b12422dd5d587.webp?v=1780413436","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/berlin-stories-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}