But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors.Īlex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War.Įspionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Almost four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage-called a "fast-moving thinking man’s thriller" by The Wall Street Journal -comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.īerlin 1948.
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