A Woman in Berlin by Marta Hillers

A Woman in Berlin

Marta Hillers with Antony Beevor (Contributor), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Contributor), Philip Boehm (Translator)

311 pages first pub 1953 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. The anonymous author depicts her fellow Berline...

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Moods

dark 84%
emotional 69%
informative 63%
sad 57%
reflective 54%
tense 39%
challenging 33%
inspiring 12%
funny 6%
hopeful 6%

Pace

medium 50%
slow 28%
fast 21%

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4.42

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