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Synopsis

First published in the 30s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of mern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers’ dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires – this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters” the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Bäuste might reliever her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.

This new edition includes an introduction by Armistead Maupin.