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The Berlin apartment / Bryn Turnbull.

ISBN: 9780778305507
ISBN: 0778305503
Physical Description: 341 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira [2024].
Copyright: &copy;2024

Summary:

On the night of August 11, 1961, Uli and Lise, newly engaged, have the biggest fight of their relationship to date. Uli storms out and spends the evening wandering the streets of Berlin. When he tries to return to his apartment to reconcile with Lise, his way is blocked by soldiers, and by the nascent beginnings of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Apartment tells Uli and Lise's love story over the course of the next twenty-eight years as they bear witness to the realities of life on either side of the Berlin Wall, reconciled to living in the same city but in vastly different countries. Through escape attempts via the student network of tunnels in 1962, as well as the insidious effects of the Stasi on daily life, Lise and Uli defy the separation imposed by the wall in this powerful story about the strength of the human spirit and the power of a love that can't be broken.