false 4643586 2 <I>Book of Clouds</I> is a haunting, masterfully wrought debut novel about a young woman adrift in Berlin, where a string of fateful encounters leads to romance, violence, and revelation. Having escaped her overbearing family a continent away, Tatiana settles in Berlin and cultivates solitude while distancing herself from the city’s past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin—seeping in through the floorboards of her apartment, lingering in the abandoned subterranea—are more alive to her than the people she passes on her daily walks. When she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive historian Doktor Weiss, her life in Berlin becomes more complex—and more perilous. Through Weiss, she meets Jonas, a meteorologist who, as a child in the GDR, took solace in the sky’s constant shape-shifting, an antidote to his grim and unyielding reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds change, culminating in an act of violence that will leave none of them untouched. Unfolding with the strange, charged logic of a dream, <I>Book of Clouds</I> is a profound portrait of a city forever in flux, and of the myths we cling to in order to give shape to our lives. 4693767 book 3 3 2009 Book of Clouds total:51|5:13|4:10|3:18|2:8|1:2| 51 177 119 26 2 4 false false Sun Apr 12 09:53:16 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 09:55:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 13:29:26 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 13:52:46 -0700 2009 "Book of Clouds" is one of the must-reads of 2009. As Wendy Lesser wrote in The New York Times, "First novels by young writers who see the world with a fresh, original vision and write about it with clarity and restraint are rare enough to begin with. When you add in the fact t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 15:16:18 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 21:16:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 05 21:10:03 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 12:53:40 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 21:10:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Aug 24 19:37:50 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 19:37:50 -0700 2009 The Independent, 25 August 2009: Now in her late twenties, Tatiana has fled her noisy, competitive family, who run a successful Jewish deli in Mexico City, to seek silence and solitude in Berlin. For five years, she has drifted through dead-end jobs and dead-end love-affairs, nights of clubbing and ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 17:09:13 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 06:41:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 04 09:20:25 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 07:12:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 00:53:48 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 09:12:11 -0700 2009 Don't judge a book by its cover. This might be a good principle to adhere to, but that cannot stop me from picking books out or deriving pleasure from a book because of the cover or as is the case with Book of Clouds because of the unusual size and uneven edges of the pages (a style I have only seen...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 17 12:23:24 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 12:37:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 15:37:08 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 15:37:08 -0700 2009 A strange book, almost like a dream. I think it's ideas escaped me and though it was well written, it was too stream of consciousness or the main character too glum to hold my interest or really ca...more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jun 16 11:55:02 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 12:02:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 07 13:29:30 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 13:58:34 -0700 2009 "Book of Clouds" is one of the must-reads of 2009. As Wendy Lesser wrote in The New York Times, "First novels by young writers who see the world with a fresh, original vision and write about it with clarity and restraint are rare enough to begin with. When you add in the fact th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 14:55:40 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 18:23:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 02 07:02:28 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 07:04:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 14:52:18 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 14:55:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 10:56:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 11:01:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:31:21 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:31:21 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 18:53:43 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 12:24:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 24 19:21:25 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 19:23:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 13 09:11:28 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 10:30:53 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 09:11:28 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4643586