Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray by Wortsman, Peter
Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray by Wortsman, Peter

Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray

Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in...
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Author: Peter Wortsman
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Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray by Wortsman, Peter

Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray

$38.38
Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray by Wortsman, Peter

Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray

$38.38
Author: Peter Wortsman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed Germania and primped up into the megalomaniac fantasy of a Thousand-Year Reichstadt in the Thirties, reduced in 1945 to a divided rubble heap, subsequently revived in a schizoid state of post-World War II duality, and reunited in 1989 when the wall came tumbling down -- Berlin has since been reborn yet again as the hipster hub of the 21st century. This book is a hopscotch tour in time and space.

Part memoir, part travelogue, Ghost Dance in Berlin is an unlikely declaration of love, as much to a place as to a state of mind, by the American-born son of German-speaking Jewish refugees. Peter Wortsman imagines the parallel celebratory haunting of two sets of ghosts, those of the exiled erstwhile owners, a Jewish banker and his family, and those of the F hrer's Minister of Finance and his entourage, who took over title, while in another villa across the lake another gaggle of ghosts is busy planning the Final Solution.

Author: Peter Wortsman
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 02/26/2013
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781609520786


Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner

About the Author
Peter Wortsman writes short stories, plays, travelogues, essays and poetry, and also translates from the German, which he considers another form of border crossing. He is the author of A Modern Way to Die, a book of short fiction, and Burning Words, a play produced in 2006 at the Northampton Center for the Arts in Northampton, Mass., and slated for production in Pforzheim, Germany, in 2014. His travel pieces have run in major American newspapers and been featured four years in a row in Travelers' Tales' The Best Travel Writing. A 2010 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, he was the recipient of the Solas Awards' 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year.

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