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Wow. Painful, real, an actual true account of what happens to women after war. Couldn‘t put it down but happy to finish.

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This was a very interesting story of a Jewish passport forger in Nazi Berlin. It is well written, so well that sometimes the funny and eventful story covered the terror of being captured. I‘m torn between this is a good thing and the necessary seriousness is missing.

Some tougher reading after Christmas. It is written in a flowing style so far.

This deeply affecting novel follows an older couple who decide to undertake their own small campaign of resistance against the Nazi regime in 1940s Berlin. Otto and Anna leave postcards throughout the city, hoping to inspire others to resist. They are not particularly heroic and their efforts are almost entirely ineffectual, yet their decision to choose decency over the vile corruption around them is ultimately incredibly powerful. Unforgettable.

"The postwoman Eva Kluge slowly climbs the steps of 55 Jablonski Strasse."

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This is basically a love story set against the end of a divided Germany. I think it was well written. But tbh it took me forever to get into this and it might be my only Erpenbeck for the time being.

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I really enjoyed this book and learned a huge amount about the Berlin Wall - the story revolves around twin sisters separated in Berlin on the night of the construction of the dividing wall between east and west - really interesting good story line and well written.

This is my haul from the SF convention I went to last weekend. I've been a good girl this year, partly because I did not manage to explore the bookshop thoroughly. It was either too crowded or I was running after an overexcited toddler. She's the one who found the 2 books with the graphic covers. She - and I - wanted all the books in this collection, but I whittled it to 2 😁. There is also 1 kids' book and 1 non-fiction ab. plurality in SF.

An omnibus classic that combines two novels into one and was inspired by real-life people that author Isherwood encountered. In Mr Norris Changes Trains, a British expatriate meets an enigmatic man named Norris who is concealing secrets. In Goodbye to Berlin, the reader is introduced to a cast of Bohemian characters who would later influence the musical Cabaret.