{"product_id":"the-berlin-stories","title":"The Berlin Stories","description":"First published in the 1930s, \u003cem\u003eThe Berlin Stories\u003c\/em\u003e contains two astonishing related novels, \u003cem\u003eThe Last of Mr. Norris\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGoodbye to Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires--this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. \u003cem\u003eThe Berlin Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in \u003cem\u003eI Am A Camera\u003c\/em\u003e and Liza Minnelli in \u003cem\u003eCabaret\u003c\/em\u003e; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48099900653757,"sku":"BS-TC0-218047","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780811218047-HD.jpg?v=1787003155","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/the-berlin-stories","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}