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A Guide to Berlin

A Guide to Berlin 1

by Gail Jones
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/08/2015
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A Guide to Berlin is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin.

A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty apartments in Berlin to share stories and memories. Each is enthralled in some way to the work of Vladimir Nabokov, and each is finding their way in deep winter in a haunted city. A moment of devastating violence shatters the group, and changes the direction of everyone's story.

Brave and brilliant, A Guide to Berlin traces the strength and fragility of our connections through biographies and secrets.

Longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize

ISBN:
9780857988157
9780857988157
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-08-2015
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
232x154x20mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Gail Jones

Gail Jones lives in Sydney and teaches at the University of Western Sydney. Her books have won numerous literary awards in Australia.

She is the author of two collections of short stories and five novels including Sixty Lights which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Dreams of Speaking which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize, and Sorry which was longlisted for the Orange Prize.

Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections, a critical monograph, and the novels Black Mirror, Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry, Five Bells and A Guide to Berlin.

Three times shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the WA Premier's Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction and the ASAL Gold Medal.

She has also been shortlisted for international awards, including the IMPAC and the Prix Femina. Her fiction has been translated into nine languages.

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One of Australia's great novelists has turned her eyes to Berlin and this is a story of six travellers who form a group based on their shared love of literature. They meet together to each share their life stories as a 'speak memory'. With this the strangers each develop a friendship with each other. The great sense of place and exploration of friendship within this novel was a joy to read.

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