OMA BOOKS

Germany — Berlin

• 2015
  Go, Went, Gone
  Jenny Erpenbeck · novel · 2015

  A retired Berlin professor befriends African refugees camped in the city.

• 2008
  Babylon Berlin
  Volker Kutscher · crime · 2008

  1929: a Cologne detective transferred to Berlin works vice as the Republic cracks.

• 1990
  The Innocent
  Ian McEwan · novel · 1990

  1955: a young Englishman joins a secret tunnel dug under the Berlin border.

• 1989
  March Violets
  Philip Kerr · crime · 1989

  1936: a Berlin private eye investigates a double murder during the Olympics.

• 1954
  A Woman in Berlin
  Anonymous · diary · 1954

  A diary of the fall of Berlin and the mass rapes that followed.

• 1947
  Alone in Berlin
  Hans Fallada · novel · 1947

  A Berlin couple secretly leave anti-Hitler postcards across the city during the war.

• 1939
  Goodbye to Berlin
  Christopher Isherwood · novel · 1939

  An English writer lodges in Weimar Berlin as the Nazis take power.

• 1929
  Emil and the Detectives
  Erich Kästner · children’s · 1929

  A boy robbed on the train to Berlin gets the city’s kids to help catch the thief.

• 1929
  Berlin Alexanderplatz
  Alfred Döblin · novel · 1929

  Released from prison, Franz Biberkopf tries to go straight in Berlin.