Berliners is Available for Pre-Order!
My New Novel Picks Up Where What the Night Sings Leaves Off
My new novel, Berliners, is at long last available for pre-order, ahead of its October 25 release! Pre-orders are very important for authors, as they tell the publisher ahead of time that there is interest in the book. If you loved my first novel, What the Night Sings, you’ll be pleased to know that Berliners is a spinoff, taking place 15 years later with a whole new cast of characters. It asks important questions about what it means to reckon with your nation’s—and your family’s—past, what happened to the Nazis after the war, and the line between good and evil that runs down every human heart (to paraphrase Solzhenitsyn). Read on to learn more, and pre-order here.
A riveting story about the rivalry between two brothers living on opposite sides of the Berlin wall during its construction in the 1960s, and how their complicated legacy and dreams of greatness will determine their ultimate fate.
A city divided. A family fractured. Two brothers caught between past and present.
Berlin, 1961. Rudi Möser-Fleischmann is an aspiring photographer with dreams of greatness, but he can't hold a candle to his talented, charismatic twin brother Peter, an ambitious actor. With the sudden divorce of their parents, the brothers find themselves living in different sectors of a divided Berlin; the postwar partition strangely mirroring their broken family. But one night, as the city sleeps, the Berlin Wall is hurriedly built, dividing society further, and Rudi and Peter are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground. That is, until the truth about their family history and the growing cracks in their relationship threaten to split them apart for good.
From National Book Award-nominated, critically acclaimed author-illustrator Vesper Stamper comes a stark look at how resentment and denial can strain the bonds of brotherhood to the breaking point.