Title: Book of Clouds
Author: Chloe Aridjis
Publisher: Black Cat
Year: 2009
Number of pages: 209
ISBN: 9780802170569
Synopsis: Book of Clouds, Chloe Aridjis's debut novel, is a tale of a young woman adrift in Berlin, where a string of fateful encounters leads to romance, violence, and, ultimately, revelation.Having escaped her overbearing family a continent away, Tatiana settles in Berlin and begins to cultivate solitude while distancing herself from the city's past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin - seeping in through the floorboards of her apartment, lingering in the abandoned subterranea - become more alive to her than the people she passes on her daily walks. When she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive historian Doktor Weiss, Tatiana's life in Berlin becomes more complex and more perilous. Through Weiss, she meets Jonas, a meteorologist who, as a child in East Germany, took solace in the sky's constant shape-shifting, an antidote to his grim and unyielding reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begin to change, culminating in an act of violence that will leave none of them untouched.Unfolding with the strange, charged logic of a dream, Book of Clouds is a portrait of a city forever in flux, and of the myths we cling to in order to give shape to our lives. From a crowded U-Bahn where Hitler appears dressed as an old woman, to an underground Gestapo bowling alley whose walls bear score marks from games long-settled, Chloe Aridjis guides us through Berlin with wit and compassion, and shows why cities, like people, cannot outrun their pasts.
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