{"product_id":"berlin-paperback-10","title":"Berlin - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Mirolla\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As wickedly funny and hilariously angry as vintage Harlan Ellison.\"--\u003cb\u003eSpider Robinson, author of \u003ci\u003eCallahan's Crosstime Saloon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A delightful romp through the metaphysical muck.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHalifax Daily News\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A funny, tragic glimpse into the territory of the absurd, somewhere between Kafka and Vonnegut.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Weird and wonderful . . . imaginative, unsettling, devilishly layered. Mirolla delights in verbal and situational sleight-of-hand, exposing a disorienting world of labyrinthine dreams and menacing recurrent images. Mirolla likes the macabre and grotesque, absurdities and stylistic play. He mercilessly exposes our alienation and primal fears, forcing us to face the awful possibility that we are no more than the product of our own devising.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvent Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Berlin Wall falls. A continent away, a mysterious mental patient awakes from a two-year stupor. His obsession with Berlin is unexplained. His escape from the hospital launches a surreal adventure in which past blends with future, and death is used to change the fabric of the world in a freakish experiment on transcendental philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Franz Kafka or Italo Calvino in their blending of the real and surreal, or like a psychedelic drug trip, this story brings the reader into West Berlin's seamy underlife--the omnipresent wall, transvestite bars, and sadomasochism. It is a secret world where a concentration-camp survivor sells gas stoves, a world of philosophical intelligentsia, adultery, and murder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrenetic, kaleidoscopic, horrible, brilliant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Mirolla\u003c\/b\u003e, author of novels, short stories, poetry, and plays, lives in Toronto, Canada. His writing has won many awards and has appeared in numerous journals in Canada, the United States, Britain, and Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Mirolla\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Formal Logic of Emotion\u003c\/i\u003e, is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and playwright living in Toronto, Canada. His short fiction and poetry have won several prestigious awards, including selection for publication in The Journey Prize Anthology, and have appeared in numerous journals in Canada, the US, Britain, and Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47268757111033,"sku":"9780981514819","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/5pzQx1GBn9780981514819.webp?v=1768885818","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/berlin-paperback-10","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}