![]() ![]() But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. ![]() Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. ![]() Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. Summary: "From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage-called a "fast-moving thinking man's thriller" by The Wall Street Journal-comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. ![]()
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