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New Year’s Eve, 1988. Two people are dancing an inexpert tango in no-man’s-land as snow falls. Who, what, are they waiting for? Philip Hensher’s Berlin is a city of escape and hiding, where wary obsessions form and grow. Shady Mr Picker has a dream of a rose-coloured dawn; he knows he could change history by introducing pleasure to the East – or, at any rate, large consignments of chemical bliss. And maybe he’s right; history is on the move, glimpsed through a seedy landscape of bars and bedsits, small-scale terrorism and large deceptions.
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Die Stadt hinter der Mauer, Ruth Keen, Philip Hensher
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- Released
- 2002
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- Subtitle
- Roman
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Ruth Keen, Philip Hensher
- Publisher
- Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 356
- ISBN10
- 3596153069
- ISBN13
- 9783596153060
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- 3.4 out of 5
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- New Year’s Eve, 1988. Two people are dancing an inexpert tango in no-man’s-land as snow falls. Who, what, are they waiting for? Philip Hensher’s Berlin is a city of escape and hiding, where wary obsessions form and grow. Shady Mr Picker has a dream of a rose-coloured dawn; he knows he could change history by introducing pleasure to the East – or, at any rate, large consignments of chemical bliss. And maybe he’s right; history is on the move, glimpsed through a seedy landscape of bars and bedsits, small-scale terrorism and large deceptions.