{"product_id":"berlin-now-the-city-after-the-wall","title":"Berlin Now: The City After the Wall","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBerlin Now: The City After the Wall\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePeter Schneider\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374535421\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e's most charismatic and enigmatic city \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt isn't Europe's most beautiful city or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those in Barcelona or London. And yet, \"when natives of New York, Tel Aviv, or Rome ask me where I'm from and I allude to Berlin,\" writes Peter Schneider, \"their eyes instantly light up.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBerlin Now\u003c\/i\u003e is a longtime Berliner's bright, bold, and digressive exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city. Delving beneath the obvious answers--Berlin's club scene, bolstered by the lack of a mandatory closing time; the artistic communities that thrive due to the relatively low cost of living--Schneider takes us on an insider's tour of this rapidly metamorphosing metropolis, where high-class soirees are held at construction sites and enterprising individuals often accomplish more, and without public funding (assembling, for example, a makeshift club on the banks of the Spree River), than Berlin's officials do.\u003cbr\u003e Schneider's perceptive, witty investigations of everything from the insidious legacy of suspicion instilled by the East German secret police to the clashing attitudes toward work, food, and love held by former East and West Berliners have been sharply translated by Sophie Schlondorff. The result is a book so lively that readers will want to jump on a plane--just as soon as they've finished their adventures on the page.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Berlin Now: The City After the Wall | Peter Schneider | Paperback | 9780374535421 | Used: Like New | European History 1777962 (temp: 7)","offer_id":49771018780824,"sku":"1777962","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81L3gWm8lRL.jpg?v=1788120255","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/berlin-now-the-city-after-the-wall","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}