'A heady evocation of a city in moral stasis ... Litvinoff is excellent on describing the dichotomy between Berlin's sullen monochrome East and devil-may-care West, but it is with his intriguing melee of heroes, vagabonds and miscreants that he brings post-War Berlin dizzyingly to life' BookWitty. 'Litvinoff is a wonderful chronicler of city life ... he conjures up post-war Berlin ... Read moredown to the very smells ... Full of heart and sensitivity ... it is a compelling investigation into guilt and complicity' TLS. 'A real treat ... This is still some achievement and has been the book I have enjoyed most to date in Apollo's surprisingly wide-ranging series of eight of the best books you've never read ' Nudge Book. 'Litvinoff's novel is as much about place as people, and he excels with his portrait of post war, pre-Wall Berlin ... We accompany them through a city of victims and survivors, perpetrators and ghosts - all the time wondering why so fine a book could languish so long in obscurity. Now this overlooked gem can sparkle again' Herald. 'The great forgotten novel of post-war Berlin ... both moving and forensic in its portrayal of a shabby and still only partly repaired city: recently divided between East and West but united by a common past of such monstrosity that the most prosaic presences and encounters shriek of murder' Patrick Wright. 'One of the best unsung novelists of our time' Valentine Cunningham. Show Less