Berlin Shuffle by Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander

Berlin Shuffle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250869494)

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Berlin Shuffle by Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander

Berlin Shuffle

$26.99
Berlin Shuffle by Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander

Berlin Shuffle

$26.99
Format: Hardcover
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A prophetic lost classic from interwar Germany, following a group of Berliners on the skids as their nation begins to spin out of control.

Berlin in the early 1920s was the largest city in Europe, a cultural mecca, and a political mess. A hedonistic Babylon full of glitz, though there's little glamour for the hundreds of thousands out of work, the war-wounded, the prostitutes, and beggars. Come evening they, too, want to shed their cares at the Jolly Huntsman pub, where they gather to drink, dance, and celebrate life.

But there's always disaster lurking in the alleys and flophouses, a disaster that twenty-two-year-old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz clearly saw coming. Here is the disarray and discontent that would feed the Nazi storm.

Tragically that storm would engulf the author, killed in 1942, one of many flames snuffed out by Germany's war machine. His literary debut from 1937, now translated into English for the first time, is both a testimony from that pivotal moment and the triumph of a spectacular talent.

Author: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
ISBN-10: 1250869498
ISBN-13: 9781250869494
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2025
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
By Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
By Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
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Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz was born in Berlin in 1915. He fled Germany in 1935 and wrote his novels while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1939, he settled in England, but after the war broke out, England interned him as an "enemy alien"--despite his Jewish background--and shipped him to Australia. In 1942, Boschwitz was allowed to return to England, but his ship was torpedoed by a German submarine, and he was killed at twenty-seven years old.

Philip Boehm has translated more than thirty novels and plays by German and Polish writers, including Herta M?ller, Franz Kafka, and Ida Fink. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, as well as numerous awards, including the Wolff Translator's Prize and the Ungar Award from the American Translators Association, among others. He also works as a theater director and playwright.

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