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"A funny and moving debut."—Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post
"A love letter to Berlin, to travel, and to saying yes to life."—Alan Cumming
It's the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own. In Berlin the past is everywhere: the graffiti-stained streets, the candlelit cafés and techno clubs, the astonishing mash-up of architecture, monuments, and memorials.
A trip that begins in isolation evolves into one of deep connection and possibility. In an intensely concentrated series of days, Sam finds himself awash in the city, stretched in limbo between his own past and future—in nightclubs with Jeremy, a lonely wannabe DJ; navigating a flirtation with Kaspar, an East Berlin artist he meets at a café; and engaged in a budding relationship with Magda, the enigmatic and icy manager of Sam's hotel, whom Sam finds himself drawn to and determined to thaw. I Make Envy on Your Disco is at once a tribute to Berlin, a novel of longing and connection, and a coming-of-middle-age story about confronting the person you were and becoming the person you want to be.
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Release date
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781496240040
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- ISBN: 9781496240040
- File size: 1357 KB
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- English
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April 15, 2024
An art adviser navigates his early mid-life crisis during a visit to Berlin in theater producer Schnall’s affecting debut. Sam Singer, 37, arrives from New York City in the early aughts to attend the opening of an art exhibition about ostalgie, or nostalgia for East Germany. Having recently seen a message on his longtime partner’s cellphone from another man, he feels unnerved and vulnerable. He goes to a club to hear some techno; befriends Magda, the gorgeous and enigmatic manager of his hotel; and meets up with hapless expat Jeremy, the nephew of one of his clients. While roaming the city’s graffitied streets, only halfheartedly visiting the galleries he’s come to see, he meets a gorgeous young artist named Kaspar, falls a little in love with Magda, and grows fond of the earnest Jeremy. Sam’s present-tense narration leaves little room to explore the central themes of nostalgia and restlessness, though Schnall succeeds at bringing the city’s strange beauty to life. This will strike a chord with anyone who’s been touched by the magic of Berlin.
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