{"product_id":"9781681372723","title":"Kaesebier Takes Berlin (New York Review Books Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In English for the first time, a biting satirical novel about an untalented, self-delusioned celebrity who seduces all of Weimar Berlin.  In Berlin, 1930, the name Kasebier is on everyone's lips. A literal combination of the German words for \"cheese\" and \"beer,\" it's an unglamorous name for an unglamorous man--a small-time crooner who performs nightly on a shabby stage for laborers, secretaries, and shopkeepers. Until the press shows up.  In the blink of an eye, this everyman is made a star: a star who can sing songs for a troubled time. Margot Weissmann, the arts patron, hosts champagne breakfasts for Kasebier; Muschler the banker builds a theater in his honor; Willi Frachter, a parvenu writer, makes a mint off Kasebier-themed business ventures and books. All the while, the journalists who catapulted Kasebier to fame watch the monstrous media machine churn in amazement--and are aghast at the demons they have unleashed.  In Kasebier Takes Berlin, the journalist Gabriele Tergit wrote a searing satire of the excesses and follies of the Weimar Republic. Chronicling a country on the brink of fascism and a press on the edge of collapse, Tergit's novel caused a sensation when it was published in 1931. As witty as Kurt Tucholsky and as trenchant as Karl Kraus,Tergit portrays a world too entranced by fireworks to notice its smoldering edges\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52302779679031,"sku":"EB_LI0701_A04-08_DHS","price":93.5,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9781681372723","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}