BERLIN: IMAGINE A CITY

Book ID/图书代码： 10010012B57738

English Summary/英文概要： Imagine Berlin. Imagine a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history’s most bloody century. Imagine the most arrogant capital of Europe devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centres of the world. The German capital resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful, and fallen so low. No other city has been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations.

Through a series of intimate portraits of some of its key residents-from the architect Schinkel to David Bowie-over five centuries, Rory Maclean weaves together a rich, interconnected, energetic history of this volatile city.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 柏林 – 當今世上最偉大的城市之一，它不僅是德國的首都，也是歐洲最重要經濟文化重鎮之一。想像一下，柏林曾經經歷二戰的摧殘，只有空蕩蕩的實驗室宛如鬼城，現在已成為歐盟區人口第二多的創意之城，這個城市也曾因為一道牆，分隔成理想及和現實，最後還是迫於現實，毀了牆合而為一。
關於柏林的介紹及描述不勝枚舉，可以從很多不同層面談起，但作者Rory MacLean要如何呈現獨特之處呢？他透過許多知名住民，如中世紀的民謠歌手、建築師Karl Friedrich Schinkel、納粹宣傳部長Goebbells、演員歌手Marlene Dietrich等人的描繪，為這部城市傳記建立一個富含歷史、文化、藝術、人文的資料庫。
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Awards/获奖情况：I loved it. It is such a beautiful way of understanding history, its stories are so vivaciously told, it is so heartfelt, so intelligent, and so talkative a book. So many of the characters do end up talking to each other, and the author is eavesdropping. It paints the past and the present, portrays Berlin as a portrait of someone you love. It is beautiful. (Jay Griffiths)

A brilliant new history of Berlin...What makes MacLean’s history of Berlin stand out is that this is an intensely human document, a rich tapestry spanning five centuries and woven together through intimate portraits of 21 if its former inhabitants which collectively reveal the narrative of the city....This is how I love history to be told, through the people who live it...a fascinating book. (THE OBSERVER)

About the Author/作者介绍： Rory MacLean is one of Britain’s most expressive and adventurous travel writers. His ten books, including UK best-sellers ’Stalin’s Nose’ and ’Under the Dragon’, have challenged and invigorated creative non-fiction writing, and - according to the late John Fowles - are among works that ’marvellously explain why literature still lives’. He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England as well as a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize. He has written and presented over 50 BBC radio programmes and worked on movies with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Rory divides his time between Berlin, London and Dorset.

http://www.rorymaclean.com

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