The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin Bell Kirsty
Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.The Undercurrents is a dazzling…
Specifikacia The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin Bell Kirsty
Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city's theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma.When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell--a British-American art critic, adrift in her midforties--becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her
The Undercurrents
The Eyes of the Dragon: A Story
The Story of a New Name
The Story of a Love Song