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Leaving Berlin
- Narrated by: Corey Brill, Will Patton
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
'Up there with the very best . . . Kanon writes beautifully, superbly . . . He is the master of the shadows of the era' THE TIMES
From the author of The Good German (made into a film starring George Clooney), Leaving Berlin is a sweeping post-war story and an international bestseller.
Berlin is still in ruins almost four years after the war, caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. Alex Meier is a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis for America before the war. Now, the politics of his youth have left him embroiled in the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, Alex makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native Berlin.
But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. Espionage, like the black market, is still a way of life.
PRAISE FOR LEAVING BERLIN:
'Leaving Berlin is hauntingly and beautifully written. You’re going to love it . . . Falling into the book is like falling into a vice; it grips you, pitilessly, until the last page' RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB
'Hugely exciting' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'One of the most exciting books I’ve read in years' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
'Brings the hardships and moral decay of post-war Berlin to life in glorious detail' DAILY EXPRESS
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- S. Murdoch
- 27-01-17
Great characters and plot
I am a big Bernie Gunther fan and this was on the same level. Less humour and history but intricate plot line and a pleasure to listen to.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-08-20
Give it time
The first hour or so, almost seems unneeded. Once the story gets going it is worth it, twists and turns of post war Berlin.
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- Daniela Crouch
- 15-10-19
good with room for improvement
really liked the book, great story and insights into post war Germany. found it gripping enough in places to sail past my exit on the motorway. would wish the narrator had done some basic googling before reading the book though and not quite butchered the German so much, however he is great at doing the different characters and conveying the mood of the book.
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- Rachel Bell
- 15-08-24
Gripping
One of those rare audiobooks where you are furious if anything interrupts it.
Brilliant narration, fantastic twisty plot, so atmospheric of post war Berlin.
I’m off to buy everything else Joseph Kanon ever wrote.
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