A Guide to Berlin
A Guide to Berlin
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We travel to find ourselves, to run away. What we discover can be confronting.
oA Guide to Berlino is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. It is unusual in that it concerns everyday objects, not monuments- the 'guide' is one man's pub-talk, and consists of small noticed details and random visions recorded on an inconsequential winter's day in the Berlin of the 20s.
In this contemporary novel, A Guide to Berlin, six strangers to the city - two Italians, two Japanese, one American and one Australian - meet over their interest in Vladimir Nabokov's work. They enter a kind of informal narrative contract to offer up 'speak-memories' to each other. Each shares stories of their past and forms friendships and relationships within their international circle.
The plot turns on a sudden moment of violence. The city of Berlin transfixes them all, but in deeply personal and distinctive ways, so that although there is a net of affiliations and shared images, the city is different for each of thema Although another 'ensemble' novel, like Five Bells, this novel takes as its focus the Australian character, a young woman called Cass.
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BOOK DETAILS
BOOK DETAILS
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9780857988157
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Publisher: Random House Australia
Number of pages: 272
Width (mm): 154
Height (mm): 232
Depth (mm): 20
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