ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice
A tract essential for our often morally fuzzy times . . . It is destined to be a classic. San Francisco Chronicle
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. With bald honesty and brutal lyricism (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity (The Plain Dealer,Cleveland),A Woman in Berlintells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.
A Woman in Berlinstands as one of the essential books for understanding war and life (A. S. Byatt, author ofPossession).
The anonymous author of
A Woman in Berlinwas a young woman at the time of the fall of Berlin. She was a journalist and editor during and after the war.
A devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist, and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every woman, ought to read it.
Arundhati Roy, Booker Prize-winning author ofThe God of Small Things
A tract essential for our often morally fuzzy times . . . It is destined to be a classic.
San Francisco Chronicle
Let Anonymous stand witness as she wished to: as an undistorted voice for all women in war and its aftermath, whatever their names or nation or ethnicity. Anywhere.
Los Angeles Times
An astonishing record of survival . . . the voicel“)
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