Wall Jumper A Berlin Story

Name: Wall Jumper A Berlin Story
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ISBN: 9780226739410

ISBN-10: 0226739414

ISBN-13: 9780226739410

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Authors: Peter A. Schneider, Leigh Hafrey

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"Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished."--Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review When the Berlin Wall was still the most tangible representation of the Cold War, Peter Schneider made this political and ideological symbol into something personal, that could be perceived on a human level, from more than one side. In Schneider's Berlin, real people cross the Wall not to defect but to quarrel with their lovers, see Hollywood movies, and sometimes just because they can't help themselves--the Wall has divided their emotions as much as it has their country. …

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List price: $26.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396

Leigh Hafrey is Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-Master of Mather House, Harvard College. His journalism, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in the "New York Times" and other American and European periodicals.