Berlin – Broken Ground
‘Broken Ground’ a great audio novel I recently listened to: The story is about Kathe Shalk, who after living in America for many years, returns to Berlin to try to come to terms with the Berlin of her youth.
Her journey from America to the broken ground of contemporary Germany becomes an act of recovery: of lives intertwined by politics and passion, of memory and the invented self, and of Kaethes search for a daughter lost to her, now grown and living in uncompromising isolation from her mothers past and present, somewhere in vast, resurgent Berlin.
This made for highly captivating listening, the audio book – even though it’s fiction – paints a good picture of todays political landscape in Germany, the conflicts between the USA and the old world and shows how people can be caught up in this.
Good listening!