{"product_id":"berlin-shuffle","title":"Berlin Shuffle","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, translated by Philip Boehm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA prophetic lost classic from interwar Germany, now translated into English for the first time, following a group of Berliners on the skids as their nation unravels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerlin in the 1920s is the largest city in Europe, a cultural mecca, and a political mess: a hedonistic Babylon, though there’s little glamor for the hundreds of thousands out of work, the war wounded, the prostitutes, and the beggars. Come evening they too want to shed their cares at the Jolly Huntsman pub, where they gather to drink, dance, and reassert their pride.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut there’s disaster lurking in the alleys and flophouses, a disaster that the twenty-two-year-old author Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz saw coming for his nation. In this dark comedy of petty theft, soapbox speeches, and bar fights is the disarray of a country devouring itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTragically, Germany’s self-destruction engulfed the author, who was killed five years after finishing this novel. When Boschwitz’s The Passenger was rediscovered in 2021, it was heralded as a masterpiece that captured the terror of the Nazi reign. Now, \u003cem\u003eBerlin Shuffle\u003c\/em\u003e—his literary debut from 1937, finally available in English, with a preface by the preeminent translator Philip Boehm—brings to life the society that would enable fascism’s takeover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe triumph of one of world literature’s spectacular talents, \u003cem\u003eBerlin Shuffle\u003c\/em\u003e is a dire warning sent from a pivotal moment in history to our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003eMetropolitan Books, 2025\u003cbr\u003e5.38 x 1 x 8.25 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781250869494 \u003cbr\u003eGerman History, Literature\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53874683183272,"sku":"9781250869494","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Ulrich-Alexander-Boschwitz_Berlin-Shuffle.jpg?v=1758472938","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/berlin-shuffle","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}