Presented by Lisez l'Europe
Because of the storm announced for February 12, we have moved this book club to February 19. Thank you for your comprehension!
Our upcoming book club will feature a
German literature novel, and will take place
Tuesday, February 19 at 6:30 pm at the Goethe-Institut Montreal.
The book chosen for this session is
Babylon Berlin, by Volker Kutscher. The discussion will be held in French and moderated by
Marie-Pierre Poulin, librarian at the Goethe-Institut Montreal.
Please confirm your presence before
February 9 at the following address:
lisezleurope@montreal.goethe.org.
About the book:
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.
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. Rath 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.
(macmillan.com)
About the author:
Volker Kutscher was born in 1962. He studied German Literature, philosophy, and history, and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel.
Babylon Berlin, the start of an award-winning series of novels to feature Gereon Rath and his exploits in late Weimar Republic Berlin, was an instant hit in Germany. The series was awarded the Berlin Krimi-Fuchs Crime Writers Prize in 2011 and has sold more than one million copies worldwide and was adapted as a 12-part Netflix miniseries by Tom Tykwer (director of Cloud Atlas and The International). He lives in Cologne. (macmillan.com)
The book can be obtained (in French) at the following bookstores:
Librairie Gallimard: (
10% discount for Lisez l’Europe members)
librairie@gallimardmontreal.com
514 499-2012
Librairie Olivieri:
service@librairieolivieri.com
514 739-3639
Librairie du Square au Carré St-Louis:
librairiedusquare@librairiedusquare.com
514 845-7617
Librairie du Square - Outremont:
outremont@librairiedusquare.com
514 303-0612
You can find the ebook at
chapters.indigo.ca.
French or English copies are also available through the
Grande Bibliothèque and the
Montreal public library system. One German copy is available at the Goethe-Institut Montreal.
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