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Ghosts of Berlin : stories / Rudolph Herzog ; translated by Emma Rault.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 180 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1612197515
  • 9781612197517
Uniform titles:
  • Truggestalten. English
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Herzog, Rudolph. Tandem
  • Container of (work): Herzog, Rudolph. Ball lightning
  • Container of (work): Herzog, Rudolph. Needle and thread
  • Container of (work): Herzog, Rudolph. Ifrit
  • Container of (work): Herzog, Rudolph. Key
  • Container of (work): Herzog, Rudolph. Ex patria
  • Container of (work): Herzog, Rudolph. Double-decker
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Tandem -- Ball lightning -- Needle and thread -- Ifrit -- Key -- Ex patria -- Double-decker
Summary: "In these hair-raising stories from the celebrated filmmaker and author Rudolph Herzog, millennial Berliners discover that the city is still the home of many unsettled--and deeply unsettling--ghosts. And those ghosts are not very happy about the newcomers. Thus the coddled daughter of a rich tech executive finds herself slowly tormented by the poltergeist of a Weimer-era laborer, and a German intelligence officer confronts a troll wrecking havoc upon the city's unbuilt airport. An undead Nazi sympathizer romances a Greek emigre, while Turkish migrants curse the gentrifiers that have evicted them. Herzog's keen observational eye and acid wit turn modern city stories into deliciously dark satires that ride the knife-edge of suspenseful and terrifying."--Amazon.com.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Herzog, Rudolph Available 33111009548211
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Translated from the German.

Tandem -- Ball lightning -- Needle and thread -- Ifrit -- Key -- Ex patria -- Double-decker

"In these hair-raising stories from the celebrated filmmaker and author Rudolph Herzog, millennial Berliners discover that the city is still the home of many unsettled--and deeply unsettling--ghosts. And those ghosts are not very happy about the newcomers. Thus the coddled daughter of a rich tech executive finds herself slowly tormented by the poltergeist of a Weimer-era laborer, and a German intelligence officer confronts a troll wrecking havoc upon the city's unbuilt airport. An undead Nazi sympathizer romances a Greek emigre, while Turkish migrants curse the gentrifiers that have evicted them. Herzog's keen observational eye and acid wit turn modern city stories into deliciously dark satires that ride the knife-edge of suspenseful and terrifying."--Amazon.com.

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