{"product_id":"ksebier-takes-berlin-gabriele-tergit-9781681372723","title":"K舖ebier Takes Berlin","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn English for the first time, a panoramic satire about the star-making machine, set in celebrity-obsessed Weimar Berlin.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Berlin, 1930, the name K sebier is on everyone's lips. A literal combination of the German words for \"cheese\" and \"beer,\" it's an unglamorous name for an unglamorous man--a small-time crooner who performs nightly on a shabby stage for laborers, secretaries, and shopkeepers. Until the press shows up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the blink of an eye, this everyman is made a star: a star who can sing songs for a troubled time. Margot Weissmann, the arts patron, hosts champagne breakfasts for K sebier; Muschler the banker builds a theater in his honor; Willi Fr chter, a parvenu writer, makes a mint off K sebier-themed business ventures and books. All the while, the journalists who catapulted K sebier to fame watch the monstrous media machine churn in amazement--and are aghast at the demons they have unleashed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eK sebier Takes Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e, the journalist Gabriele Tergit wrote a searing satire of the excesses and follies of the Weimar Republic. Chronicling a country on the brink of fascism and a press on the edge of collapse, Tergit's novel caused a sensation when it was published in 1931. As witty as Kurt Tucholsky and as trenchant as Karl Kraus, Tergit portrays a world too entranced by fireworks to notice its smoldering edges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabriele Tergit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 168137272X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681372723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/26\/2018","brand":"Gabriele Tergit","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937198145791,"sku":"9781681372723","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b47b7069-e95c-408e-89fe-c2ee54db035b.jpg?v=1681428681","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ksebier-takes-berlin-gabriele-tergit-9781681372723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}