EAN: 9780749390549

VINTAGE CLASSICS GOODBYE TO BERLIN - CHRISTOP...

1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze  excess and repression.   Having moved to the
city to work on his novel  Christopher finds himself immersed in a world of contradiction. He
becomes enamoured with the local denizens and the colourful lives they lead  meeting an English
upper-class waif  the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles  a couple - Peter and Otto - who are
struggling with their sexual identities  and a distinguished and doomed Jewish family  the
Landauers. With the Nazis rising to power  Christopher's Berlin is a sparkling city perched on
the edge of an abyss.   'Isherwood is a master' Evening Standard    'Brilliant sketches of a
society in decay' George Orwell    'Reading this novel is much like overhearing anecdotes in a
crowded bar while history knocks impatiently at the windows' Guardian

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