Ghosts Of Berlin

Description

Hipster life collides with Berlin's dark past in these seven supernatural tales of contemporary Berlin, by the son of the great filmmaker who "shares his father's curious and mordant wit" (The Financial Times). In GHOSTS OF BERLIN, Rudolph Herzog's macabre and madcap vision of Berlin, bleeding walls are terrifying, as are overpriced artisanal burgers. Set in hipster Kruezberg, chic airport lounges, and the former border between East and West Germany, the denizens of Herzog's Berlin are demon conjuring tech bros, acid-tripping artists, and forsaken migrants, each encountering the ghosts of the city's complicated past.

Rudolph Herzog (b.1973) is an award-winning writer and director. His BBC/ARD documentary on humor in Hitler's Third Reich became the basis of DEAD FUNNY named a book of the year by THE ATLANTIC. His second book, the critically acclaimed SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY was later made into a documentary that streamed on Netflix. He is the son of acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog. Translated from the German by Emma Rault.

""Splendid and eerie ... Herzog has a knack for summoning the uncanny into otherwise austere, modern settings, and further twisting its presence into a foreboding paranoia. ... Shrewd and provocative ... The plots are thick, and the twists are powerful." - Dave Wheeler, Shelf Awareness "Ghosts of Berlin's explicit foregrounding of the macabre is a clever sleight of hand that also allows for consideration of gentrification ... Sharp satire, and a worthy addition to the growing canon of Berlin ghost-lit." - Booklist International praise for Ghosts of Berlin ... "Rudolph Herzog is a master craftsman of the horror genre." -Deutschlandfunk "Herzog is fearless, not because he is unafraid of ghosts, but because he settles them all in bumptious Berlin, which would seem to reject every thought of something as romantic and antiquated as a ghost, yet contains all the historic raw materials that tend to breed ghosts like dunghill maggots. -Die Zeit "In Herzog's gripping stories, the artistic-wickedness of Berlin and its architectural misery flicker in the twilight." -Suddeutsche Zeitung "Rudolph Herzog's ghost stories are downright classics and give Berlin back what was forgotten in the years of the party, the gentrification, the reunification: the horror, the suffering, the spirits of the people who have perished as losers of history." -Radio Eins