I Make Envy on Your Disco

✍ Scribed by Eric Schnall

• Book ID: 115117821
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 243 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781496240040

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction
It's the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own. In Berlin the past is everywhere: the graffiti-stained streets, the candlelit cafes and techno clubs, the astonishing mash-up of architecture, monuments, and memorials.
A trip that begins in isolation evolves into one of deep connection and possibility. In an intensely concentrated series of days, Sam finds himself awash in the city, stretched in limbo between his own past and future--in nightclubs with Jeremy, a lonely wannabe DJ; navigating a flirtation with Kaspar, an East Berlin artist he meets at a cafe; and engaged in a budding relationship with Magda, the enigmatic and icy manager of Sam's hotel, whom...