Berlin Shuffle
- Author Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
- Narrator Neil Hellegers
- Publisher Pushkin Press
- Publish Date 15 January 2026
- Run Time 7 hours and 30 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Fiction in translation.
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Berlin, 1920s: a beacon of culture and hedonism, but a political mess. The streets are crowded with war veterans, beggars, prostitutes and madmen, desperately chasing any means to secure a few marks or a roof over their heads. Come nighttime, a rag-tag group descends on the Jolly Huntsman pub to dance and drown their cares in all the schnapps they can afford. But in this society on the brink, pleasure all too easily erupts into violence.
A bleakly comic story of struggle and discontent on the fringes of the metropolis,
Berlin Shuffle is a blistering portrait of a divided society that would give way to fascism. Written when he was just twenty-two years old, Boschwitz's first novel displays his extraordinary talent for capturing Germany's self-destruction, which would tragically engulf him only five years later.
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A welcome addition to Boschwitz's oeuvre. . . The book's greatest strength is showing, in day-to-day terms . . . an atmosphere in which a fascist government could arise. . . Many of the novel's concerns overlap with those of the present day
nChilling and vividly portrayed . . . This clear-eyed novel from Boschwitz (n The Passenger), who died in 1942, excavates the resentments of a broad cast of German characters as the country slides toward fascism. . . The plot threads are seamlessly stitched together. . . Profound
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