Goodbye To Berlin
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Yellowed spine.
A landmark work of autobiographical fiction, Goodbye to Berlin chronicles the life of a young British writer living in Germany's Weimar Republic during the early 1930s, as the shadow of National Socialism steadily darkens the city around him. Through a series of vivid, loosely connected sketches, Isherwood introduces an unforgettable cast of characters — including the iconic, free-spirited Sally Bowles — whose vibrant, precarious lives illustrate the decadence and desperation of a society on the brink of catastrophe. The narrative adopts a cool, detached tone, famously captured in the opening line I am a camera, presenting Berlin's cabaret culture, its working-class boarding houses, and its Jewish families with the precise, unsentimental eye of a witness rather than a moralist. Beneath its deceptively episodic structure, the work builds a profound and haunting portrait of a world sleepwalking toward ruin, making it one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century.
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, The Folio Society
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Yellowed spine.
A landmark work of autobiographical fiction, Goodbye to Berlin chronicles the life of a young British writer living in Germany's Weimar Republic during the early 1930s, as the shadow of National Socialism steadily darkens the city around him. Through a series of vivid, loosely connected sketches, Isherwood introduces an unforgettable cast of characters — including the iconic, free-spirited Sally Bowles — whose vibrant, precarious lives illustrate the decadence and desperation of a society on the brink of catastrophe. The narrative adopts a cool, detached tone, famously captured in the opening line I am a camera, presenting Berlin's cabaret culture, its working-class boarding houses, and its Jewish families with the precise, unsentimental eye of a witness rather than a moralist. Beneath its deceptively episodic structure, the work builds a profound and haunting portrait of a world sleepwalking toward ruin, making it one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century.