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In Berlin
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781737351993
Publisher: Liu Book Group
Published: Aug 5 2025
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An utterly spellbinding journey...reflects a triumph of the human spirit in the face of unexpected catastrophe. -Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States
His novel is for the universe, and all readers will find bits of themselves in places they might not have realized. -Heather Krill, True North
For fans of Abraham Verghese and Lisa Genova, an intriguing, exciting, twisted, frustrating, entangled, non-conventional love story.
Software engineer Anna Werner lives at a rapid clip, relishing her work and adopted city as much as her early morning runs. All comes undone on a sweaty August evening when, in the course of a 20-minute commute, Anna goes from worrying vaguely over a sore shoulder to staggering her way into an ambulance. She has suffered a spinal stroke. Over the coming months, her parents join the insurance man in telling her to get ready for life in a group home.
The only person who recognizes what Anna is still capable of is Batul al-Jaberi, a recent Syrian immigrant who meets Anna while doing her rounds as a janitor at the hospital. Batul is applying to medical school, where she hopes to regain control of a life hijacked by her family's flight from persecution in the early days of the Arab Spring.
At first the friendship is what Anna and Batul each need to regain mobility. But as their relationship deepens, Batul finds she must choose between her family and Anna-a choice that will force both women to rewrite their notions of loyalty.
In Berlin is a work of empathetic precision, exploring both the unpredictable nature by which geopolitics and scientific breakthroughs touch our lives, and the brave, bold, and sometimes quiet ways in which people reassert agency in the face of loss. Most of all, it taps a throughline of emotion that binds characters and readers alike across geographies, cultures, and ambitions.
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