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Berlin Cantata by Jeffrey Lewis (2012, Paperback) Uncorrected Advance Copy
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- 9781907822438
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
iC-Haus Publishing
ISBN-10
1907822437
ISBN-13
9781907822438
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127361982
Product Key Features
Book Title
Berlin Cantata
Number of Pages
237 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Psychological, General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
'Among Berlin Cantata's most interesting aspects is its inclusion of an oft-neglected population: Jews who continued to live in Europe-and Germany-after the Holocaust... Lewis also impresses with his ability to create distinct voices for each of first-person "soloists"...', By giving voice to his characters, Lewis navigates their tales with compassion and fully explores the complications of living in a city haunted by its violent past., "The novel begs to be read more than once, to savor every nuance of expression, inner conflict, and resolution." - The Jewish Book Council "The great strengths in Jeffrey Lewis' previous four novels have now been brought together in such a happy way in Berlin Cantata , with striking characters, atmosphere and plot, that a clear career arc emerges. He has been painstakingly, novel by novel, constructing an oeuvre that puts him in the ranks of the country's must-read authors. In Berlin Cantata Lewis plays his multifarious voices like a conducting maestro with the instruments in his orchestra. You never know what the next voice will say until he or she says exactly what you suddenly realize you've been waiting to hear. Read on." - Peter Davis, director of Hearts and Minds , and author of If You Came This Way "In BERLIN CANTATA, Jeffrey Lewis has written a stunning novel, as deep and intriguing as the city itself. The varied cast of characters tell their own stories as they wind their tortured and tortuous way through the dark past toward some kind of understanding, if not atonement. I was utterly absorbed by this book. - Lee Smith, "The great strengths in Jeffrey Lewis' previous four novels have now been brought together in such a happy way in Berlin Cantata , with striking characters, atmosphere and plot, that a clear career arc emerges. He has been painstakingly, novel by novel, constructing an oeuvre that puts him in the ranks of the country's must-read authors. In Berlin Cantata Lewis plays his multifarious voices like a conducting maestro with the instruments in his orchestra. You never know what the next voice will say until he or she says exactly what you suddenly realize you've been waiting to hear. Read on." - Peter Davis, director of Hearts and Minds , and author of If You Came This Way "In BERLIN CANTATA, Jeffrey Lewis has written a stunning novel, as deep and intriguing as the city itself. The varied cast of characters tell their own stories as they wind their tortured and tortuous way through the dark past toward some kind of understanding, if not atonement. I was utterly absorbed by this book. - Lee Smith, We read of secrets kept, deals executed, mysteries uncovered, impossible love, and, always, loss. With outstanding craft Jeffrey Lewis examines the political sentiments, and every possible, probable, and wrenching emotion we might imagine. The novel begs to be read more than once, to savor every nuance of expression, inner conflict, and resolution., "The novel begs to be read more than once, to savor every nuance of expression, inner conflict, and resolution." - The Jewish Book Council "Thirteen narrators comprise the choir of Lewis's newest, a story of a city and its inhabitants seeking atonement for the past. A chain of events is set into motion when Holly, a Jewish American woman, travels to Berlin soon after the fall of the Wall to reclaim the house from which her parents were expelled during the Holocaust. In the decades since her parents lost the property, both Nazis and Communists owned the house, and Holly finds it currently occupied by the remaining members of the "old East German Writers Union." The quest to repossess the home, and thus gain closure for the horrors inflicted on her parents, is far more complex than she expected. Whilst in Berlin (which one narrator describes as "a hothouse, that had grown under the Cold War's searchlights exotic flowers of every inappropriate variety"), she meets a fraudulent war hero and a local journalist, both of whom, in their respective narratives, reveal or withhold secrets that inform the relationships between them. Linked by a history of shifting loyalties and deceit, the narrator's stories are filled with the agony of loss and the desperate search for identity. By giving voice to his characters, Lewis navigates their tales with compassion and fully explores the complications of living in a city haunted by its violent past." -Publishers Weekly "The great strengths in Jeffrey Lewis' previous four novels have now been brought together in such a happy way in Berlin Cantata , with striking characters, atmosphere and plot, that a clear career arc emerges. He has been painstakingly, novel by novel, constructing an oeuvre that puts him in the ranks of the country's must-read authors. In Berlin Cantata Lewis plays his multifarious voices like a conducting maestro with the instruments in his orchestra. You never know what the next voice will say until he or she says exactly what you suddenly realize you've been waiting to hear. Read on." - Peter Davis, director of Hearts and Minds , and author of If You Came This Way "In BERLIN CANTATA, Jeffrey Lewis has written a stunning novel, as deep and intriguing as the city itself. The varied cast of characters tell their own stories as they wind their tortured and tortuous way through the dark past toward some kind of understanding, if not atonement. I was utterly absorbed by this book. - Lee Smith
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
A young Jewish woman goes to Berlin after the fall of the Wall, finding a world of possibilities and deception., A city that has lost one of its limbs and is receiving a miraculous gift, a little bump under the flesh, where the limb is just beginning to grow back. Thus does the American girl in Jeffrey Lewis's remarkable polyphonic novel describe Berlin and the remnant Jews, secret GDR Jews...Soviet Jews...Jews who'd fled and come back with the victors, Jews who were lost mandarins now, Jews who'd believed in the universality of man and maybe still did whom she finds at a Day of Atonement gathering in the eastern part of the city in a year soon after the Wall fell. Berlin Cantata deploys thirteen voices to tell a story not only of atonement, but of discovery, loss, identity, intrigue, mystery, insanity, sadomasochism and lies. At its centre is a country house owned successively by Jews, Nazis and Communists. In the country house, the American girl seeks her hidden past. In the girl, a local reporter seeks redemption. In the reporter, a false hero of the past seeks exposure. In the false hero, the American girl seeks a guide. And so it goes, a round of conspiracy and desire. Even as he describes his native city, the false hero describes the characters of Berlin Cantata: We dined on wreckage. We were not afraid to beg. We continued our long tradition of believing either in nothing or too much., A city that has lost one of its limbs and is receiving a miraculous gift, a little bump under the flesh, where the limb is just beginning to grow back. Thus does the American girl in Jeffrey Lewis's remarkable polyphonic novel describe Berlin and the "remnant Jews, secret GDR Jews...Soviet Jews...Jews who'd fled and come back with the victors, Jews who were lost mandarins now, Jews who'd believed in the universality of man and maybe still did" whom she finds at a Day of Atonement gathering in the eastern part of the city in a year soon after the Wall fell. Berlin Cantata deploys thirteen voices to tell a story not only of atonement, but of discovery, loss, identity, intrigue, mystery, insanity, sadomasochism and lies. At its centre is a country house owned successively by Jews, Nazis and Communists. In the country house, the American girl seeks her hidden past. In the girl, a local reporter seeks redemption. In the reporter, a false hero of the past seeks exposure. In the false hero, the American girl seeks a guide. And so it goes, a round of conspiracy and desire. Even as he describes his native city, the false hero describes the characters of Berlin Cantata: "We dined on wreckage. We were not afraid to beg. We continued our long tradition of believing either in nothing or too much."
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PS3612.E965
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