The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1635423449 ISBN13: 9781635423440 Release Date: September 2022 Publisher: Other Press (NY) Length: 400 Pages Weight: 1.85 lbs. Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 7.9" Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city's theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell--a British-American art c