In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall,
a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the
last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin.
Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the last
twenty-five years into Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of
artists, immigrants and entrepreneurs. Pieces of the wall are
collected around the world. Blending memoir, history, anecdote and
reportage, this legendary Berliner takes us behind the scenes -
from wrenching stories of life under the Stasi, to the difference
between East and West Berliners' sex-lives, to a present-day
investigation of its arts scene, night-life, tumultuous politics
and hidden quirks - revealing what makes Berlin the uniquely
fascinating place it is. Peter Schneider makes the city come alive.
He knows his stuff and shares it beautifully, elegantly, generously
and informatively. Berlin has found its bard'Breyten Breytenbach,
author of 'Notes from the Middle World' Praise for The Wall Jumper:
'Marvelous . . . creates, in very few words, the unreal reality of
Berlin' Salman Rushdie, New York Times Book Review 'Schneider's
description of the Berlin wall from both sides . . . is the
ultimate depiction of this structure. Nothing more need be said'
Werner Herzog 'Wonderful' Ian McEwan Peter Schneider was born in
Lubeck, Germany, in 1940, and has lived in Berlin on and off since
the 1960s, when he was a key spokesperson for its radical student
movement. Renowned as a novelist and essayist, he is now the author
of more than twenty books, including the Penguin Modern Classic The
Wall Jumper. He has taught at many universities, including
Stanford, Princeton and Harvard, and written for many international
newspapers, including Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Le Monde and
La Repubblica.
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