The Weather in Berlin: A Novel Review

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The Weather in Berlin: A Novel ReviewI was not familiar with Ward Just's work until I happened upon "A Dangerous Friend," a very interesting novel about America's early involvement in Vietnam. Like that book, The Weather in Berlin has both a compelling plot and an immersive atmosphere. I strongly advise against reading the book jacket, or any review that tells you too much about the plot. Suffice it to say that the protagonist is a movie director who is famous for a 70's film about Germany in the 1920's, which became a cult favorite.
Having "lost his audience" since then, he returns to Berlin for a period of time at an Institute, and from that point on there are many interesting developments and observations on topics as diverse as directors and actors, Germany today and between the two great wars, European views of America and Russia, love and death, etc. But such a summary does not do justice to the atmosphere Just establishes, and to the way he somewhow manages to engage you totally in the plot while avoiding simplistic expressions of political ideologies and why people think and behave the way they do.
I haven't read a more compelling novel in years, and A Dangerous Friend is an excellent companion piece -- totally different frame of reference, same insights into character and history. I once read that the author Brian Moore (another favorite) "never wrote the same book twice." I haven't read all of Ward Just (I will), but I place him in Brian Moore's category -- just a wonderful writer and observer of human nature, whose minor characters are more "real" than many of the major characters in lesser fiction. This is literature at its best.The Weather in Berlin: A Novel Overview

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