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Comparing this subject with other areas in world literature can also enrich your understanding of how German narratives intersect with broader historical and cultural themes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"berlin-shuffle-9781250869494-new","title":"Berlin Shuffle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA prophetic lost classic from interwar Germany, following a group of Berliners navigating economic turmoil and the rise of fascism, now translated into English for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBerlin in the 1920s is the largest city in Europe, a cultural mecca, and a political mess: a hedonistic Babylon, though there's little glamour for the hundreds of thousands out of work, the war wounded, the prostitutes, and the beggars. 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