1989: Richard, an expatriate American, is working a profitable yet "pointless" job selling software for a small U.S. firm in West Berlin. Katarina Weber is a married mother whose hedonistic escapades help distract him from the emptiness of his existence. When Richard ventures beyond the No Man's Land into East Berlin to fulfill a personal obligation, he meets Traudi Franzke, a young nurse addicted to the communist ideals inherited at an early age from her father. The ensuing relationship, separated from reality by the notorious Berlin Wall, exposes beliefs long since betrayed but clung to, nevertheless. Throughout that momentous year, Richard straddles the two distinct worlds of East and West Berlin, moving between cynicism and hope, until events send them careening toward a collision, completing a journey from an age of ideologies to the "end of history."

A ribald romp through a pivotal time and place; an intimate portrait of a revolution; a searing indictment of the human condition, No Man's Land reveals the farce and tragedy of Germany's division and reunification through a lens not found in any history book. In brisk, vivid prose, Califra masterfully captures Wendezeit Berlin; the arrogant excesses and self-indulgence of the democratic West "flaunting" its wealth, as well as the dysfunction, frustration and repression in the totalitarian East as they existed, side by side, in one city on the cusp of dramatic change.

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• Publication Date: June 30, 2014
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• Print Length: 361 Pages
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