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A review by professorbadger
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.0
I’ve read a few of Kanon’s other books, and I always find them a bit slow but full of memorable settings and interesting points in history. Leaving Berlin was one of his more tightly paced novels, I thought. The setting of post-war Berlin is always an interesting, with multiple countries with different goals all trying to operate on top of one another in a single divided city.
If you end up enjoying this one, you might also like The Good German. The setting is the same, and some of the other elements were so similar that I spent parts of this book wondering whether I’d already read it at some point. Turns out I hadn’t — my brain was remembering similar elements from The Good German.
If you end up enjoying this one, you might also like The Good German. The setting is the same, and some of the other elements were so similar that I spent parts of this book wondering whether I’d already read it at some point. Turns out I hadn’t — my brain was remembering similar elements from The Good German.