Café Berlin

A Syrian Jew finds romance and intrigue in Weimar-era Berlin in this “superbly imagined” literary thriller ( Kirkus Reviews ). In the years between Germany’s defeat in World War I and the reign of the Nazis, the underground clubs and cabarets of Berlin pulsed with the frenetic energy of rebellion. Suspended on the precipice of global catastrophe, a young counterculture emerged in the Weimar capital, where—if only for a moment—races and religions mixed, jazz music resounded, and liquor flowed in