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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 brilliant semi-autobiographical account of early 1930’s Berlin.
Lonely Planet Magazine
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
1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, excess and repression.
Having moved to the city to work on his novel, Christopher finds himself immersed in a world of contradiction. He becomes enamoured with the local denizens and the colourful lives they lead, meeting an English upper-class waif, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles; a couple – Peter and Otto – who are struggling with their sexual identities; and a distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers. With the Nazis rising to power, Christopher’s Berlin is a sparkling city perched on the edge of an abyss.
‘Isherwood is a master’ Evening Standard
‘Brilliant sketches of a society in decay’ George Orwell
‘Reading this novel is much like overhearing anecdotes in a crowded bar while history knocks impatiently at the windows’ Guardian
A brilliant semi-autobiographical account of early 1930’s Berlin.
Lonely Planet Magazine
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
1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, excess and repression.
Having moved to the city to work on his novel, Christopher finds himself immersed in a world of contradiction. He becomes enamoured with the local denizens and the colourful lives they lead, meeting an English upper-class waif, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles; a couple – Peter and Otto – who are struggling with their sexual identities; and a distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers. With the Nazis rising to power, Christopher’s Berlin is a sparkling city perched on the edge of an abyss.
‘Isherwood is a master’ Evening Standard
‘Brilliant sketches of a society in decay’ George Orwell
‘Reading this novel is much like overhearing anecdotes in a crowded bar while history knocks impatiently at the windows’ Guardian