{"product_id":"berlin-atomized-hardcover","title":"Berlin Atomized - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Kornberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJack Rockwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBerlin Atomized\u003c\/i\u003e is the world bridged, coupled, and made fast\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eby the latest lost generation and by Julia Kornberg's border-and-genre-crossing talent, as restless as a flame.\" --Joshua Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Jewish Book Award winning \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA kinetic, globetrotting novel following three siblings--Jewish and downwardly mobile--from 2001 to 2034, as they come of age against the major crises of the 21st century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerlin Atomized\u003c\/i\u003e begins in Buenos Aires of the early 2000s with the self-baptisms of Nina Goldstein. She bathes too frequently, washing with fervor and repeating: \"I am not asleep.\" She grows up partying and taking undeserved siestas, while her eldest brother Jerem?as is drawn into the city's powder keg music scene, and the middle sibling, Mateo, learns of his terminal illness and prepares to join the IDF. Though Argentina faces the worst economic crisis in its history, the Goldsteins are being reared in a newly developed gated community that displaces working class families. Each sibling rehearses their escape from the capitalist Eden of their birth, unaware that the gated community will soon be underwater, and their family scattered all over the earth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe second half of the novel takes place between 2018 and 2035, invoking and imagining possible futures for this existence in migration. Jerem?as lives in Paris until an undeclared war destroys the city, and Nina, after tracing Mateo's last steps to his death in Tel Aviv, ends up in Berlin, where the European Union is found in the shambles of its own history. From Punta del Este to Paris, Berlin to Jerusalem, Brussels to Tokyo, the novel progresses into a dire near future of constant flight and fire as the siblings search for one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDefiant and dexterous, percussive and percolating with violent light, \u003ci\u003eBerlin Atomized\u003c\/i\u003e is Julia Kornberg's napalm-ic debut--a tale about the end of the world, as told by the clear-eyed youth to which that world had been promised.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Kornberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1996. A fiction writer in Spanish, she also writes literary criticism in English and has work published or forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eBookforum, The New York Review of Books, The Drift, The Baffler, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eAtomizado Berlín\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in Mexico and Argentina in 2021. She splits her time between New York City and Buenos Aires and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.1 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42190708473991,"sku":"9781662602856","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f878b59cd345f60f00a9ba374b444fea.webp?v=1733905880","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/berlin-atomized-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}