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Berlin Now

Name: Berlin Now
Author: Peter Schneider, Sophie Schlondorff

The City After the Wall

Peter Schneider,

Sophie Schlondorff,

337 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Berlin Now

The City After the Wall

Peter Schneider,

Sophie Schlondorff,

About this book

An entertaining, enlightening, and "engrossing" journey through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic city ( The Christian Science Monitor).
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, Peter Schneider tells us, when citizens of New York, Tel Aviv, or Rome ask him where he's from and he mentions the name Berlin, 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 Germany's rapidly metamorphosing metropolis, where high-class soirees are held at construction sites and enterprising individuals often accomplish more without public funding—such as 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.
"Amusing, knowledgeable essays and dispatches." — Kirkus Reviews
"Wonderful." — The Financial Times

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