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Berlin Cantata

`A city that has lost one of its limbs and is receiving a miraculous gift, a little bump under the flesh, where the limb is just beginning to grow back`. Thus does the American girl in Jeffrey Lewis` remarkable polyphonic novel describe Berlin and the `remnant Jews, secret GDR Jews…Soviet Jews…Jews who`d fled and come back with the victors, Jews who were lost mandarins now, Jews who`d believed in the universality of man and maybe still did` whom she finds at a Day of Atonement gathering in the eastern part of the city in a year soon after the Wall fell. “Berlin Cantata” deploys thirteen voices to tell a story not only of atonement, but of discovery, loss, identity, intrigue, mystery, insanity, sadomasochism and lies. At its centre is a country house owned successively by Jews, Nazis and Communists. In the country house, the American girl seeks her hidden past. In the girl, a local reporter seeks redemption. In the reporter, a false hero of the past seeks exposure. In the false hero, the American girl seeks a guide. And so it goes, a round of conspiracy and desire.Even as he describes his native city, the false hero describes the characters of “Berlin Cantata”: `We dined on wreckage. We were not afraid to beg. We continued our long tradition of believing either in nothing or too much`.

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