Request for book addition- In Berlin by Eric Silberstein

[Julianne]

* Title: In Berlin
* Author(s) name(s): Eric Silberstein
* ISBN (or ASIN): 9781737351931
* Publisher: Liu Book Group
* Publication Date Year: 2025
* Publication Date Month: August
* Publication Date Day: 05
* Page count: 312
* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): Paperback

* Description: “His novel is for the universe, and all readers will find bits of themselves in places they might not have realized.” —Heather Krill, True North

For fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid and Abraham Verghese, an “intriguing, exciting, twisted, frustrating, entangled, non-conventional love story.”

Software engineer Anna Werner lives at a rapid clip, relishing her work and adopted city as much as her early morning runs. All comes undone on a sweaty August evening when, in the course of a 20-minute commute, Anna goes from worrying vaguely over a sore shoulder to staggering her way into an ambulance. She has suffered a spinal stroke. Over the coming months, her parents join the insurance man in telling her to get ready for life in a group home.

The only person who recognizes what Anna is still capable of is Batul al-Jaberi, a recent Syrian immigrant who meets Anna while doing her rounds as a janitor at the hospital. Batul is applying to medical school, where she hopes to regain control of a life hijacked by her family’s flight from persecution in the early days of the Arab Spring.

At first the friendship is what Anna and Batul each need to regain mobility. But as their relationship deepens, Batul finds she must choose between her family and Anna—a choice that will force both women to rewrite their notions of loyalty.

In Berlin is a work of empathetic precision, exploring both the unpredictable nature by which geopolitics and scientific breakthroughs touch our lives, and the brave, bold, and sometimes quiet ways in which people reassert agency in the face of loss. Most of all, it taps a throughline of emotion that binds characters and readers alike across geographies, cultures, and ambitions.

Link to Netgalley page: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/boo...

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Julianne wrote: "* Title: In Berlin
* Author(s) name(s): Eric Silberstein
* ISBN (or ASIN): 9781737351931
* Publisher: Liu Book Group
* Publication Date Year: 2025
* Publication Date Month: August
* Publication D..."

Hi, we appreciate your patience as we work through the tremendous backlog. Please note that NetGalley is a permissible source for cover images; however, it may not be used as a source for book data. We need a webpage showing the ISBN/ASIN and other book data to validate the info and if available we need it for the cover image. It should be non-bookseller site (Amazon & AbeBooks excepted), so from the publisher, library or another acceptable site: https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/..., if you have the book, we can use a scan/photo of your copy for the cover and the page with the publication information (you can upload a scan/photo of your own to the "more photos..." section of your profile (https://www.goodreads.com/photo/new) in the browser, not the app), then copy the link here and a librarian can add it. Make sure you state the source of the photo in the text and that your account settings are public (not private).

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