berlin (germany)

Seventeen-year-old Sacha Naimann dreams of writing a novel about her mother and killing the man who murdered her, Sacha's stepfather Vadim, while struggling to care for her younger siblings and leave behind her painful childhood.

Mimi's plans to spend the summer after tenth grade in Berlin with her mother change suddenly when she runs off to London, moves in with her school friend Lily and the wealthy and well-connected family she is staying with, and takes an internship at a gossip magazine.

Discusses aspects of Berlin's society from its founding in the thirteenth century to the present.

Drawing from the archives of six nations, this history of the siege and fall of Berlin in 1945 describes life in the city at its bleakest hour.