{"product_id":"9781841596266","title":"Berlin Stories","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Hensher, Philip \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eGermany\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 10 October 2019 by Everyman (Everyman's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e187 x 121 x 31 | 440g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in terms of urban architecture  - largely a creation of the progressive 19th century, laid waste by World War II, temporary home of the infamous Wall - and in ways of living and behaving. As early as the 1920s it was the gay capital of Europe; the Communist East\/free West barrier presented unique problems for a divided population; and in the 1990s, in the aftermath of reunification, the cheap, run-down city became a vibrant centre for creative artists. 'The sense of making it up as you go along is never far away in Berlin.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The stories in this volume are the product of this series of multiple rebirths from the viewpoint of both insiders and outsiders. From pre- 1914 there are contributions from Theodor Fontane and Robert Walser; from the Weimar Republic, Alexander Doeblin, Vladimir Nabokov, Erich Kastner, Ernst Haffner, Irmgeud Keun and Christopher Isherwood; from the Third Reich, Thomas Wolfe, Hans Fallada and Heinz Rein; from the Cold War era, Peter Schneider, Thomas Brussig, Len Deighton, Christa Wolf and Ian McEwan; from post-reunification, Gunter Grass, Wladimir Kaminer, Chloe Aridjis, Uwe Timm, Kevin Barry, Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Jenny Erpenbeck.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41785577570491,"sku":"9781841596266","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781841596266.jpg?v=1713555887","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.pro\/products\/9781841596266","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}