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Berliners

By Vesper Stamper

By Vesper Stamper

By Vesper Stamper

By Vesper Stamper

By Vesper Stamper

By Vesper Stamper

By Vesper Stamper
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    About Berliners

    A riveting story about the rivalry between two brothers living on opposite sides of the Berlin wall during its construction in the 1960s, and how their complicated legacy and dreams of greatness will determine their ultimate fate.

    A city divided. A family fractured. Two brothers caught between past and present.

    Berlin, 1961. Rudi Möser-Fleischmann is an aspiring photographer with dreams of greatness, but he can’t hold a candle to his talented, charismatic twin brother Peter, an ambitious actor. With the sudden divorce of their parents, the brothers find themselves living in different sectors of a divided Berlin; the postwar partition strangely mirroring their broken family. But one night, as the city sleeps, the Berlin Wall is hurriedly built, dividing society further, and Rudi and Peter are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground. That is, until the truth about their family history and the growing cracks in their relationship threaten to split them apart for good.
     
    From National Book Award-nominated, critically acclaimed author-illustrator Vesper Stamper comes a stark look at how resentment and denial can strain the bonds of brotherhood to the breaking point.

    About Berliners

    A riveting story about the rivalry between two brothers living on opposite sides of the Berlin wall during its construction in the 1960s, and how their complicated legacy and dreams of greatness will determine their ultimate fate.

    A city divided. A family fractured. Two brothers caught between past and present.

    Berlin, 1961. Rudi Möser-Fleischmann is an aspiring photographer with dreams of greatness, but he can’t hold a candle to his talented, charismatic twin brother Peter, an ambitious actor. With the sudden divorce of their parents, the brothers find themselves living in different sectors of a divided Berlin; the postwar partition strangely mirroring their broken family. But one night, as the city sleeps, the Berlin Wall is hurriedly built, dividing society further, and Rudi and Peter are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground. That is, until the truth about their family history and the growing cracks in their relationship threaten to split them apart for good.
     
    From National Book Award-nominated, critically acclaimed author-illustrator Vesper Stamper comes a stark look at how resentment and denial can strain the bonds of brotherhood to the breaking point.

    About Berliners

    A riveting story about the rivalry between two brothers living on opposite sides of the Berlin wall during its construction in the 1960s, and how their complicated legacy and dreams of greatness will determine their ultimate fate.

    A city divided. A family fractured. Two brothers caught between past and present.

    Berlin, 1961. Rudi Möser-Fleischmann is an aspiring photographer with dreams of greatness, but he can’t hold a candle to his talented, charismatic twin brother Peter, an ambitious actor. With the sudden divorce of their parents, the brothers find themselves living in different sectors of a divided Berlin; the postwar partition strangely mirroring their broken family. But one night, as the city sleeps, the Berlin Wall is hurriedly built, dividing society further, and Rudi and Peter are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground. That is, until the truth about their family history and the growing cracks in their relationship threaten to split them apart for good.
     
    From National Book Award-nominated, critically acclaimed author-illustrator Vesper Stamper comes a stark look at how resentment and denial can strain the bonds of brotherhood to the breaking point.

    About Berliners

    A riveting story about the rivalry between two brothers living on opposite sides of the Berlin wall during its construction in the 1960s, and how their complicated legacy and dreams of greatness will determine their ultimate fate.

    A city divided. A family fractured. Two brothers caught between past and present.

    Berlin, 1961. Rudi Möser-Fleischmann is an aspiring photographer with dreams of greatness, but he can’t hold a candle to his talented, charismatic twin brother Peter, an ambitious actor. With the sudden divorce of their parents, the brothers find themselves living in different sectors of a divided Berlin; the postwar partition strangely mirroring their broken family. But one night, as the city sleeps, the Berlin Wall is hurriedly built, dividing society further, and Rudi and Peter are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground. That is, until the truth about their family history and the growing cracks in their relationship threaten to split them apart for good.
     
    From National Book Award-nominated, critically acclaimed author-illustrator Vesper Stamper comes a stark look at how resentment and denial can strain the bonds of brotherhood to the breaking point.

    *Includes a downloadable PDF of a Glossary and Resources from the book

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    About Vesper Stamper

    Vesper Stamper is an author/illustrator living in the Northeast with her husband, filmmaker Ben Stamper, and her two children. She has an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from School of Visual Arts, NYC. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook… More about Vesper Stamper

    About Vesper Stamper

    Vesper Stamper is an author/illustrator living in the Northeast with her husband, filmmaker Ben Stamper, and her two children. She has an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from School of Visual Arts, NYC. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook… More about Vesper Stamper

    About Vesper Stamper

    Vesper Stamper is an author/illustrator living in the Northeast with her husband, filmmaker Ben Stamper, and her two children. She has an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from School of Visual Arts, NYC. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook… More about Vesper Stamper

    About Vesper Stamper

    Vesper Stamper is an author/illustrator living in the Northeast with her husband, filmmaker Ben Stamper, and her two children. She has an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from School of Visual Arts, NYC. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook… More about Vesper Stamper

    Product Details

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $21.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Oct 25, 2022 | 448 Pages | 6 x 9 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780593428368

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $24.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Oct 25, 2022 | 448 Pages | 6 x 9 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780593428375

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Oct 25, 2022 | 448 Pages | Young Adult | ISBN 9780593428382

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $27.50
    Published by Listening Library
    Oct 25, 2022 | 804 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9780593609590
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    Praise

    “This intimate portrait of two brothers split by the Berlin Wall in 1961 feels like a parable, a warning, a mirror of our modern times.” —Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad Is Untrue, Printz Award Winner

    “A richly layered, complex historical novel that poses important questions and provides a chilling lens into a dark period of history.” —New York Times bestseling author Ruta Sepetys

    ★ ”An excellent, nuanced piece of historical fiction.” —The Horn Book, starred review 

    “[Stamper’s] portrayal of propaganda and how teens can easily fall prey to this kind of rhetoric is spot on.” —Booklist

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