'Readers in search of tips about the best techno clubs or falafel stands will have to look elsewhere. Schurer's refreshing disregard for hipness sets his account apart from most others written in English. What the book does offer is a richly textured and idiosyncratic take on the city of Schurer's childhood, as if the reader were surveying Berlin in the ... Read morecompany of a friend who grew up there.'
Times Literary Supplement 'To say that Berlin has a complicated history is an obvious understatement. Here author Norbert Schurer offers a cultural history of the dynamic city with a troubled past. Looking beyond its status as the former capital of Nazi Germany, Schurer examines all sides of Berlin throughout the ages, from its medical origins as a walled city to its modern 21st-century renaissance.' - Chicago Tribune Show Less