The Berliners Audiobook Libro.fm

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Sometimes I get fanciful and think the buildings speak That all their history is locked into the walls and if you listened closely enough you could hear all the people whod once been there

Sigi lived upstairs from Sara at Friedrichstrasse 19 yet before they met Sara had no idea that Berlin could be so thrillingly irreverent or that sex could be so intoxicatingly wonderful But then came the war and hunger loneliness and barbed wire It was just as a young girl a protegee of The Academy of Magical Arts situated in Friedrichstrasse at the start of the century had predicted

Battered and divided Berlin like its people endured Hans yearns to be part of the boundarybreaking spirit of the age but hes haunted by his mothers part in the war and the absence of a father Ilse who escaped from the East wants nothing more than the freedom she risked her life for

In 1989 in a wild act of spontaneous joy Heike leapt from the Wall into the arms of a stranger from the West Thirty years later she recognises that what shed willed to be destiny was nothing more than naivety Recently divorced she moves into Friedrichstrasse to begin a new life But its impossible not to hear the echoes of the secrets and lies visions and misunderstandings lost loves and fatal mistakes that have come before her

Timetravelling between decades through the interlocking lives of six people Friedrichstrasse 19 relives the tumultuous experience of a city on the frontline of history

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