Berlin. A city where nightclubs stay open from Fridaynight til Monday morning. A city with an underbelly as dark and addictive asthe 24-hour drugs, drinking, dancing and sex in filthy toilets that it servesup. Three young men, from different backgrounds, meet here by chance,struggling to find a future and to escape from the past. Tobias was violated asa child and tossed from one city to another by separated parents. Now he's gotAIDS and can find only fleeting happiness with a new lover. Armand fled fromhis middle-class family home to live as a painter and set up house with ahigh-school sweetheart. Tugged between expectations, desire andresponsibilities, he flees to give release his artistic soul. But at what cost?Franz was raised in a good, wealthy German family and believed he was capableof achieving anything he wanted. A job in a nightclub leads him into the Berlinunderworld, where his life takes an unexpected turn and he is threatened withruin. Berlin promises both escape and salvation for these three young men, in astunning coming-of-age story by award-winning author Oscar Coop-Phane. Withgrace and affection, he depicts a cast of flawed characters whose lives spiraldownwards, their lifestyles drawing them into a grimy abyss that threatens toeclipse them. A literary masterpiece, Tomorrow,Berlin is a compelling ode to youth and desire, and a stark reminder thatescape can only ever be an illusion.
