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Berlin: Travel with a Writer

Berlin: Travel with a Writer

Yarbrough, Marshall
Ohler, Norman

Paperback

Series: Travel with a Writer

Travel WritingFiction AnthologiesGermany

Publisher Price: $18.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date May 18, 2027

ISBN10: 2919841297
ISBN13: 9782919841295
Publisher: Walking Tree
Published: May 18 2027
Pages: 128
Language: English
Swampy stagnation on one side, and the order that makes it possible to escape on the other: this is the tension that defines Berlin.

Emerging scarred and wounded from World War II and the division of Germany, Berlin woke up as an alternative city where nothing was forbidden. Today it's a magnificent sprawl of art, history, industry, and immigration where the rearguard coexists, mostly harmoniously, with the cutting edge.

Norman is a West German who came to Berlin just as the Wall was falling and decided to stay, intoxicated by its atmosphere of passion and possibility. Three decades later, over the course of a weekend--which means Friday to Monday, for Berliners do nothing mildly--Norman sees his city through fresh eyes as he traverses it with his new friend Bihter, a young Turkish medical student who moonlights as a BDSM consort. Together they explore its many strata: the opera house and the techno club, a boat ride along the Spree and a swim in the Wannsee, never far from the traces of an embattled past but not far from a warm conversation or a great meal either.

Lively, gently irreverent, and not quite jaded by so many overlapping strata of high culture and kink, Ohler's Berlin is a gripping history lesson intertwined with a titillating narrative set against the backdrop of the capital of the future--a city that is somehow both very German and a universe unto itself.

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