Foreword
Theodor Fontane, from Effi Briest
Robert Walser, “The Little Berliner”
Alfred Döblin, from Berlin Alexanderplatz
Vladimir Nabokov, from King, Queen, Knave
Erich Kästner, from Going to the Dogs
Ernst Haffner, from Blood Brothers
Irmgard Keun, from The Artificial Silk Girl
Christopher Isherwood, “A Berlin Diary: Winter 1932–3”
Thomas Wolfe, “The Dark Messiah”
Hans Fallada, from Alone in Berlin
Heinz Rein, “Berlin, April 1945”
Peter Schneider, from The Wall Jumper
Thomas Brussig, from Heroes Like Us
Len Deighton, from Funeral in Berlin
Christa Wolf, from They Divided the Sky
Ian McEwan, from The Innocent
Günter Grass, “The Diving Duck”
Wladimir Kaminer, “Business Camouflage”
Chloe Aridjis, from Book of Clouds
Uwe Timm, “The Reichstag, Wrapped”
Kevin Barry, “Berlin Arkonaplatz – My Lesbian Summer”
Jean-Philippe Toussaint, from Television
Jenny Erpenbeck, from Go, Went, Gone
