Goodbye to Berlin

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Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals.

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ISBN: 9780749390549 Author: Isherwood, Christopher Publisher: Vintage Classics Publication Date: 2nd November 1989 Imprint: Vintage Classics Cover: Paperback Dewey: 823.912 (edition:19) Pages: 256 Language: English Readership: General - Trade / Code: K Category: Subjects: ,

Discover the dark and decadent novella that inspired Cabaret.

Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely self-indulgent Sally Bowles.

‘Brilliant sketches of a society in decay’ George Orwell

‘Isherwood is a master of the emotionally cathartic moment, funny and perspicacious’ Evening Standard

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