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Built on Sand

ISBN-13: 9781910312346

Author(s): Paul Scraton

Subjects: FYB

Publisher: Influx Press

Publisher Imprint: Influx E Book Acc

Publication Date: 25-04-2019

Format: Ebook

Availability: Temporary unavailable

£5.99
Built on Sand

About the book

Berlin: long-celebrated as a city of artists and outcasts, but also a city of teachers and construction workers. A place of tourists and refugees, and the memories of those exiled and expelled. A city named after marshland; if you dig a hole, you ll soon hit sand. The stories of Berlin are the stories Built On Sand. A wooden town, laid waste by the Thirty Years War that became the metropolis by the Spree that spread out and swallowed villages whole. The city of Rosa Luxemburg and Joseph Roth, of student movements and punks on both sides of the Wall. A place still bearing the scars of National Socialism and the divided city that emerged from the wreckage of war. Built On Sand centres on the personal geographies of place, and how memory and history live on in the individual and collective imagination. This novel offers a portrait of a city three decades on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the legacy of that history in a city that was once divided but remains fractured and fragmented.