{"product_id":"berlin-wall","title":"Berlin Wall","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBerlin Wall\u003c\/h1\u003eDavid Leo Rice\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Whiskey Tit\u003cbr\u003eMay 14 2024\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781952600456\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1952600456\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEurope, 2020. Some claim that the Berlin Wall, once a living entity, is coming back together, its scattered pieces seeking reunion on the far side of history. The European continent trembles on the edge of total war, either in reality or deep in its own feverish imagination. Part present-tense apocalyptic satire and part neo-medieval phantasmagoria, David Leo Rice's new novel presents an alternate history of the present where the Internet has become a territory unto itself and unstable factions obsessed with nationalism, liberalism, and romanticism drive one another toward a clash that could turn the very notions of refuge and culture into the ravings of a lunatic.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith \u003c\/em\u003eThe Berlin Wall\u003cem\u003e, David Leo Rice has produced a text that feels totally sui generis: he has achieved the rarest of writerly feats and become his own genre. No other writer I know embodies simultaneity so cleanly or marries the aesthetics of gnosticism, decadence and pop-culture with a clarity of prose. If \u003c\/em\u003eThe New House\u003cem\u003e was a bildungsroman from alternative dimensions, \u003c\/em\u003eThe Berlin Wall\u003cem\u003e is an allegorical history of the present. It is as if Rice presents an archaeology of time, dusting off human chronology to reveal the multiplicative source of life in all its writhing self-contained logic beneath. He charts how forms form and the way the gross larval simplicity of fascism invades and reproduces in bodies.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Thomas Kendall, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Autodidacts\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHow I Killed the Universal Man\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391540428845,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_d02c4054-d2d6-4267-8127-e94fa57a1553.jpg?v=1787355165","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/berlin-wall","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}