{"product_id":"what-berlin-remembers-9798185294239","title":"What Berlin Remembers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carlos de Vesuneca\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Berlin remembers is what Berlin has chosen not to cover. What it has not decided is also visible - in the gaps, in the unsuitable replacements, in the buildings that are still waiting.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElena Costa arrives in Berlin on commission: a long-form piece on the GDR architecture debate - what to do with the three hundred and fifty thousand people who still live in the Plattenbau housing blocks of the former East, and with the buildings themselves, which are simultaneously instruments of the surveillance state and the homes where families raised children and made coffee every morning for forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe finds Kai Brenner, an architect who grew up in a Plattenbau in Marzahn and has spent eleven years arguing - in buildings rather than in words - that demolition and preservation are both the wrong answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Berlin Remembers\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about the politics of memory and the ordinary lives inside political systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Eight in the Elena Costa Series.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus: Listen to the original title song \"The Wall We Left Standing\" - composed and produced by Bruce Whitecorner.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eListen on Apple Music\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48211702841495,"sku":"9798185294239","price":1336.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798185294239.webp?v=1788720681","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/what-berlin-remembers-9798185294239","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}