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Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904 and moved to America where he took up formal citizenship in 1946. His many famous works include Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin.A great talent
Guardian
Isherwood is a master of the emotionally cathartic moment, funny and perspicacious
Evening Standard
A masterpiece
The Economist
[A] reminder of a bygone era, powerfully capturing the energy and sleaze of Weimar-era Berlin
Independent
Reading this novel is much like overhearing anecdotes in a crowded bar while history knocks impatiently at the windows
Guardian, 1000 novels everyone must read
Brilliant sketches of a society in decay.
George Orwell
Christopher Isherwood’s brilliant novel
Time Out
A brilliant semi-autobiographical account of early 1930s Berlin.
Lonely Planet Magazine
Discover the dark and decadent novella that inspired Cabaret.
Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely self-indulgent Sally Bowles.
'Brilliant sketches of a society in decay' George Orwell
'Isherwood is a master of the emotionally cathartic moment, funny and perspicacious' Evening Standard