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The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood
1945 · 207 pages

Sally Bowles, the English cabaret singer who became the heart of Cabaret, sings badly in a Berlin nightclub while Isherwood's narrator calls himself a camera, shutter open, recording the city's slide into Nazism.

★ 6.2