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BERLIN NOW - PETER SCHNEIDER KARTONIERT (TB)

In Berlin Now   and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall  a legendary Berliner tells
the inside story of the city.   Over the last five decades  no other city has changed more than
Berlin. Divided in 1961  reunited in 1989  it has morphed over the last twenty-five years into
Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists  immigrants and entrepreneurs. Pieces of the wall
are collected around the world. Blending memoir  history  anecdote and reportage  this
legendary Berliner takes us behind the scenes - from wrenching stories of life under the Stasi
to the difference between East and West Berliners' sex-lives  to a present-day investigation of
its arts scene  night-life  tumultuous politics and hidden quirks - revealing what makes Berlin
the uniquely fascinating place it is.  'Peter Schneider makes the city come alive . He knows
his stuff and shares it beautifully  elegantly  generously and informatively. Berlin has found
its bard' Breyten Breytenbach  author of Notes from the Middle World   Praise for The Wall
Jumper :  ' Marvelous . . . creates  in very few words  the unreal reality of Berlin ' Salman
Rushdie  New York Times Book Review  'Schneider's description of the Berlin wall from both
sides . . . is the ultimate depiction of this structure . Nothing more need be said' Werner
Herzog  ' Wonderful ' Ian McEwan  Peter Schneider was born in Lübeck  Germany  in 1940  and has
lived in Berlin on and off since the 1960s  when he was a key spokesperson for its radical
student movement. Renowned as a novelist and essayist  he is now the author of more than twenty
books  including the Penguin Modern Classic The Wall Jumper. He has taught at many universities
including Stanford  Princeton and Harvard  and written for many international newspapers 
including Der Spiegel   The New York Times   Le Monde and La Repubblica .

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