This book calls out our generation hard! Confronting in a good way, it peaks into the world of creatives who move from city to city, digital nomad style, and who never really seem to “land”. They exist in a space that’s both painfully self aware and self referential, as well as oblivious and banal.
Follow two young people, originally from Southern Europe, as they explore Berlin’s international scene and try to find connection and purpose in their achingly derivative lives. The book explores themes of loneliness, listlessness, migration, and paints an accurate picture of how many big European cities have turned out. How a city becomes a backdrop for psychodramas and has a scene superimposed on it, how the arrogance of youth demands ever greater thrills and has no patience for roots, community, or even a real understanding of the city they live in.
The description of Berlin, of young couplehood, and the interior of the flat are masterful. So much is said and implied and you can just really easily immerse yourself in this world that is both seductive and off-putting in ways that are hard to define.
A really enjoyable and thought-provoking read.
One word: inertia.
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