![]() ![]() Praise for Leaving Berlin: `An unforgettable picture of a city wrecked by defeat and betrayal. Espionage, like the black market, is still a way of life. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, Alex makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native Berlin. Now, the politics of his youth have left him embroiled in the McCarthy witch-hunts. Alex Meier is a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis for America before the war. Read more harsh realities of Soviet occupation. ![]() Berlin is still in ruins almost four years after the war, caught between political idealism and the. Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape and it's a joy to see him reassert his title with such emphatic authority' Lee Child on Stardust From the author of The Good German (made into a film starring George Clooney), Leaving Berlin is a sweeping post-war story and an international bestseller. wonderfully imagined, wonderfully written, an urgent personal mystery set against the sweep of glamorous and sinister history. ![]() ![]() A sweeping novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught betwen political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation Num Pages: 400 pages. Description for Leaving Berlin Paperback. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |