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03463aam a2200409 i 4500 001 967C7C0A925711E99C50735597128E48 003 SILO 005 20190619010022 007 n 008 180910s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2018960608 020 $a 1617756326 020 $a 9781617756320 035 $a (OCoLC)1050963506 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 245 1 $a Berlin noir / $c edited by Thomas Wörtche ; translated by Lucy Jones. 264 1 $a Brooklyn, New York : $b Akashic Books, $c [2019] 300 $a 285 pages : $b map ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Akashic noir series 490 1 $a Akashic noir series 520 $a "The 13 stories in this welcome entry in Akashic's noir series, all set in 21st-century Berlin, are less about traditional crime and more likely to involve gentrification, immigrants, or Airbnb...There's more than enough variety to entertain most readers." -- Publishers Weekly "A city with a rich noir past looks beyond its history to an equally unsettling present...Wörtche keeps his promise to show Berlin as 'always moving forward in the present' in this determinedly contemporary but genuinely noir collection." -- Kirkus Reviews Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir . Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Zoë Beck, Ulrich Woelk, Susanne Saygin, Robert Rescue, Johannes Groschupf, Ute Cohen, Katja Bohnet, Matthias Wittekindt, Kai Hensel, Miron Zownir, Max Annas, Michael Wuliger, and Rob Alef. Translated from German by Lucy Jones. From the introduction by Thomas Wörtche: Berlin does not make it easy to write noir fiction--or perhaps Berlin makes it too easy. Noir tradition casts a long, influential, and even daunting shadow. Alfred Döblin's and Christopher Isherwood's works, some of Bertolt Brecht's plays, the Morgue poems by Gottfried Benn, M by Fritz Lang, and many other narratives from the first third of the twentieth century, all of which are tinged with noir, set high intellectual standards, and literary and aesthetic benchmarks that are hard to surpass... Neither Döblin nor Benn, Brecht nor Lang, catered to any crime fiction traditions. They merely steeped their literary projects in a great deal of noir. And so it is with most of the stories in our anthology: they do not necessarily follow the usual patterns of crime fiction, but regard noir as a license to write as they wish, a certain way of approaching the city, and a prism through which its nature is viewed...What's left is history. It is omnipresent in Berlin at every turn; the city issaturated in a history full of blood, violence, and death. 541 $d 20190606. 650 $a Short stories, German $v Translations into English. 650 $a Detective and mystery stories, German $v Translations into English. 650 $a Noir fiction, German $v Translations into English. 651 $a Berlin (Germany) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. 655 7 $a Short stories. 655 7 $a Mystery fiction. 700 $a Wörtche, Thomas,. 700 $a Jones, Lucy Renner,. 830 $a Akashic noir series. 830 $a Akashic noir series. 941 $a 1 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20190619011826.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=967C7C0A925711E99C50735597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search