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THE FIRST DAYS OF BERLIN
The Sound of Change
Ulrich Gutmair
Translated by Simon Pare
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Originally published in German as Die ersten Tage von Berlin. Der Sound der Wende © 2013 Klett-Cotta - J.G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger GmbH, Stuttgart. English edition published by arrangement with Michael Gaeb Literary Agency
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Dedication
For Tal and Amalia
Acknowledgements
My heartfelt thanks to everyone who told me their stories and also to those who contributed their memories but were not named in the text: Bettina Ellerkamp, Florian Zeyfang, Jörg Heitmann and Jutta Kunde.
I also owe a
