Ghosts of Berlin: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781612197517)

Berlin's hip present comes up against the city's dark past in these seven supernatural tales by the son of the great filmmaker who "shares his father's curious and mordant wit" (The Financial Times).

In these hair-raising stories from the celebrated filmmaker and author Rudolph Herzog, millennial Berliners discover that the city is still the home of many unsettled--and deeply unsettling--ghosts. And those ghosts are not very happy about the newcomers.

Thus the coddled daughter of a rich tech executive finds herself slowly tormented by the poltergeist of a Weimer-era laborer, and a German intelligence officer confronts a troll wrecking havoc upon the city's unbuilt airport. An undead Nazi sympathizer romances a Greek emigre, while Turkish migrants curse the gentrifiers that have evicted them.

Herzog's keen observational eye and acid wit turn modern city stories into deliciously dark satires that ride the knife-edge of suspenseful and terrifying.

Author: Rudolph Herzog
ISBN-10: 1612197515
ISBN-13: 9781612197517
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/12/2019
Booklist 09/15/2019 pg. 20
Shelf Awareness 10/08/2019