Berlin Cantata Brodi Ashton 2009Favorite Fiction of 2009– Los

2009Favorite Fiction of 2009– Los Angeles TimesBest Books of 2009– The Christian Science MonitorBest of 2009–Slate

indifference and slammed doors

John Lukacs questions many long-held beliefs

but on improving people's lives

who raid and pillage in order to survive

Berlin Cantata Brodi Ashton 2009Favorite Fiction of 2009– Los'A city that has lost one of its limbs and is receiving a miraculous gift, a little bump under the flesh, where the limb is just beginning to grow back'. Thus does the American girl in Jeffrey Lewis' remarkable polyphonic novel describe Berlin and the 'remnant Jews, secret GDR Jews Soviet Jews Jews who'd fled and come back with the victors, Jews who were lost mandarins now, Jews who'd believed in the universality of man and maybe still did' whom she