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European Book Club
Book club|with the book "Babylon Berlin" by Volker Kutscher
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Ottawa Public Library
- Language English
- Price Free admission
This month’s pick at the European Union Book Club in Ottawa comes from Germany. Volker Kutscher’s novel Babylon Berlin is the first book in the international-bestselling series from Volker Kutscher that centers on Detective Gereon Rath caught up in a web of drugs, sex, political intrigue, and murder in Berlin as Germany teeters on the edge of Nazism.
ABOUT THE BOOK
It’s 1929 and Berlin is the vibrating metropolis of post-war Germany—full of bars and brothels and dissatisfied workers at the point of revolt. Gereon Rath is new in town and new to the police department.
When a dead man without an identity, bearing traces of atrocious torture, is discovered, Rath sees a chance to find his way back into the homicide division. He discovers a connection with a circle of oppositional exiled Russians who try to purchase arms with smuggled gold in order to prepare a coup d’état. But there are other people trying to get hold of the gold and the guns, too. Raths finds himself up against paramilitaries and organized criminals. He falls in love with Charlotte, a typist in the homicide squad, and misuses her insider’s knowledge for his personal investigations. And as he gets further entangled with the case, he never imagined becoming a suspect himself.
"Volker Kutscher, who wrote the novels on which the series is based, has a similar disregard for the sanctity of his characters' lives as Thrones' George R. R. Martin." --The Spectator (UK)
About the author
After studying German philology, philosophy and history, Volker Kutscher, born in 1962, worked as a newspaper editor before writing his first crime novel. Today he lives as a freelance author in Cologne. His novel “Babylon Berlin”, the beginning of his crime series around Superintendent Rath set in the Berlin of the 1930s, became an overnight bestseller, and has been followed by six more so far (the first three are available in translation). The series has since been translated into many languages.
ABOUT THE BOOK
It’s 1929 and Berlin is the vibrating metropolis of post-war Germany—full of bars and brothels and dissatisfied workers at the point of revolt. Gereon Rath is new in town and new to the police department.
When a dead man without an identity, bearing traces of atrocious torture, is discovered, Rath sees a chance to find his way back into the homicide division. He discovers a connection with a circle of oppositional exiled Russians who try to purchase arms with smuggled gold in order to prepare a coup d’état. But there are other people trying to get hold of the gold and the guns, too. Raths finds himself up against paramilitaries and organized criminals. He falls in love with Charlotte, a typist in the homicide squad, and misuses her insider’s knowledge for his personal investigations. And as he gets further entangled with the case, he never imagined becoming a suspect himself.
THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN
"Cabaret on cocaine...captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars." --NPR"Volker Kutscher, who wrote the novels on which the series is based, has a similar disregard for the sanctity of his characters' lives as Thrones' George R. R. Martin." --The Spectator (UK)
After studying German philology, philosophy and history, Volker Kutscher, born in 1962, worked as a newspaper editor before writing his first crime novel. Today he lives as a freelance author in Cologne. His novel “Babylon Berlin”, the beginning of his crime series around Superintendent Rath set in the Berlin of the 1930s, became an overnight bestseller, and has been followed by six more so far (the first three are available in translation). The series has since been translated into many languages.
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