The Resource Leaving Berlin, Joseph Kanon
Leaving Berlin, Joseph Kanon
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- Summary
- Berlin 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, he 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. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignment -- to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? Betrayal? Survival? Murder?
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 563 pages (large print)
- Note
-
- "A novel"
- Originally published: New York : Atria Books, 2015
- Isbn
- 9781594139321
- Label
- Leaving Berlin
- Title
- Leaving Berlin
- Statement of responsibility
- Joseph Kanon
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Berlin 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, he 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. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignment -- to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? Betrayal? Survival? Murder?
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kanon, Joseph
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3561.A476
- LC item number
- L43 2015b
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print core
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Berlin (Germany)
- Large type books
- Large type books
- Germany
- Label
- Leaving Berlin, Joseph Kanon
- Note
-
- "A novel"
- Originally published: New York : Atria Books, 2015
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1593197
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 563 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781594139321
- Isbn Type
- (large print : paperback)
- Lccn
- 2015000489
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1593197
- (OCoLC)898161278
- Label
- Leaving Berlin, Joseph Kanon
- Note
-
- "A novel"
- Originally published: New York : Atria Books, 2015
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1593197
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 563 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781594139321
- Isbn Type
- (large print : paperback)
- Lccn
- 2015000489
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1593197
- (OCoLC)898161278
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