'This interweaving tale of politics and problems seems worth the wait.Best of 2018 nods from the Washington Post, New York Public Library, Globe and Mail, the Guardian, and more! 'A history of that's accessible and yet mind-opening.'- NPR 'The longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in the medium.'- Time 'As the Weimar Republic has declined, the art of Jason Lutes has only ascended.'- The Washington Post

This landmark collection returns this story to us now when we need examples of how to stay human to each other in the face of a politics that turns friends into enemies-a newly necessary book.'- Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night 'A watershed achievement- Berlin charted new territory for the graphic novel and comics at the same time, at once a story about artists trying to make art during the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and a bildungsroman of the first order. 'With its rich sense of time and place, nuanced portrayal of individual destinies, precisely rendered imagery, and poetic expression of themes, Jason Lutes's Berlin is truly a masterful narrative.'- Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium. Weimar Berlin was the world s metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes masterful hand. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lutes weaves these characters lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens?Marthe Muller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Serialized in twenty-two issues, collected in two volumes, with a third to be released at the same time as this omnibus, Berlin has more than 100,000 copies in print and is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism.

During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age.

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