Berlin
A Mystery, Cultural, Historical book. I am conflicted about this novel to be perfectly honest....
Set in a devastated Berlin one month after the close of the Second World War, Berlin has been acclaimed as “ambitious . . . filled with brilliantly drawn characters, mesmerizingly readable, and disturbingly convincing” by the Sunday Telegraph. An electrifying thriller in the tradition of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst, Berlin is a page-turner and an intimate portrait of Germany before, during, and after the war. It is 1945 in the American sector of occupied Berlin, and a German boy has discovered the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blonde and blue-eyed, she has been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. When the bodies of other young women begin to pile up it becomes clear that this is no isolated act of violence, and German and American investigators will have...
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- Pages: 425 pages
- ISBN: 9780802143297 / 802143296
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Long time ago, but I liked it. A good combination of a thrill, historic lesson to learn. I am conflicted about this novel to be perfectly honest. Frei's depiction of life and experience in the days immediately after the end of the war between the Allies and Germany has the serious weight of authenticity and lived history. There's marvelous period detail, a powerful, evocative atmosphere of despair, shame, guilt, uncertainty,... Composed of a number of vignettes of the victims, "Berlin" tells the story or a serial killer at loose in th3e American sector of post war Berlin. It is unusual in that the victims become real people for the reader before there lives are cut off. Powerfully written and containing a wealth of detail. A great story.
