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Publisher's summary

In the tradition of Michel Faber and Sarah Waters, here's a literary historical novel about an orphan girl's journey from poverty to film stardom, set against the grand backdrop of World War I Berlin, the cabaret era, the run-up to World War II, and the innovations in art and industry that accompanied it all.
©2008 Beatrice Colin (P)2008 Penguin
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Critic reviews

"This extravaganza had me from page one." (Emma Donoghue, author of Slammerkin)

"Colin's heroine, Lilly Aphrodite, is as rich, alive, and dangerous as the city she inhabits; and as the novel progresses, Berlin's history becomes her own." (David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife and The Danish Girl)

"Absorbing...Deftly captur[es] the era's sense of frenzied invention and seductive promise." (The New York Times Book Review)

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By Jill on 06-12-09

Depressing

the most depressing story ever told, I kept waiting on her exciting life to unfold, it barely did and in the the last 20 minutes of a 14Hour story I cant believe I stayed with it that long.

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