{"product_id":"berlin-atomized-von-julia-kornberg-ubersetzt-von-jack-rockwell","title":"Berlin Atomized","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA kinetic, globetrotting novel following three siblings—Jewish and downwardly mobile—from 2001 to 2034, as they come of age against the major crises of the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in Argentina and co-translated by the wunderkind author herself, this debut novel is for readers of Catherine Lacey’s \u003ci\u003eBiography of X \u003c\/i\u003emeets Joshua Cohen’s \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerlin Atomized \u003c\/i\u003ebegins in Buenos Aires of the early 2000s with the self-baptisms of Nina Goldstein. She bathes too frequently, washing with fervor and repeating: \"I am not asleep\". She grows up amid the partying and undeserved siestas, the papier-mâché revolutions of youth, while her eldest brother Jeremías is drawn into the city's powder keg music scene, and the middle sibling, Mateo, learns of his terminal illness and prepares to join the Israeli Defense Force. Though their country faces the worst economic crisis in its history, the Goldsteins are being reared in a newly developed gated community that displaces working class families from their suburban town. Each sibling rehearses their escape from the capitalist Eden of their birth, unaware that the gated community will soon be underwater, the family scattered all over the earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second half of the novel takes place between 2018 and 2035, invoking and imagining possible futures for this existence in migration. Jeremías lives in Paris until an unspoken war destroys the city in a terrorist attack, and Nina, after tracing their brother Mateo's last steps to his death in Tel Aviv, ends up in Berlin, where the European Union is found in the shambles of its own history. From Punta del Este to Paris, Berlin to Jerusalem, Brussels to Tokyo, the novel progresses into a dire near future of constant flight and fire as the siblings search for one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefiant and dexterous, percussive and percolating with violent light, \u003ci\u003eBerlin Atomized\u003c\/i\u003e is Julia Kornberg’s Napalm-ic debut—a tale about the end of the world, as told by the clear-eyed youth to which that world had been promised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781662602856\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Novel\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9781662602856","offer_id":53725709369669,"sku":"9781662602856","price":24.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/53e8b076-467a-4dc8-83cf-ca67fa0f63f5.jpg?v=1781064949","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/berlin-atomized-von-julia-kornberg-ubersetzt-von-jack-rockwell","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}