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The City After the Wall
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2014
On Sale: August 5, 2014
336 pages
ISBN: 0374254842
EAN: 9780374254841
Kindle: B00HY019HC
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Non-Fiction
"A smartly guided romp, entertaining and
enlightening, through Europe’s most charismatic
and enigmatic city It isn’t Europe’s most beautiful city, or its oldest.
Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or
Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures
than those in Barcelona or London. And yet, when
citizens of “New York, Tel Aviv, or Rome ask me where I’m
from and I mention the name Berlin,” writes Peter Schneider,
“their eyes instantly light up.” Berlin Now is a longtime Berliner’s bright,
bold, and digressive exploration of the heterogeneous allure
of this vibrant city. Delving beneath the obvious
answers—Berlin’s club scene, bolstered by the lack of a
mandatory closing time; the artistic communities that
thrive due to the relatively low (for now) cost of
living—Schneider takes us on an insider’s tour of this
rapidly metamorphosing metropolis, where high-class soirees
are held at construction sites and enterprising individuals
often accomplish more without public funding—assembling a
makeshift club on the banks of the Spree River—than Berlin’s
officials do. Schneider’s perceptive, witty investigations on everything
from the insidious legacy of suspicion instilled by the East
German secret police to the clashing attitudes toward
work, food, and love held by former East and West Berliners
have been sharply translated by Sophie Schlondorff. The
result is a book so lively that readers will want to jump on
a plane—just as soon as they’ve finished their adventures on
the page.
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