{"product_id":"i-make-envy-on-your-disco","title":"I Make Envy on Your Disco","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A funny and moving debut.\"‚ÄîCharles Arrowsmith, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúA love letter to Berlin, to travel, and to saying yes to life.‚Äù‚ÄîAlan Cumming\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It‚Äôs the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own. In Berlin the past is everywhere: the graffiti-stained streets, the candlelit caf√©s and techno clubs, the astonishing mash-up of architecture, monuments, and memorials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A trip that begins in isolation evolves into one of deep connection and possibility. In an intensely concentrated series of days, Sam finds himself awash in the city, stretched in limbo between his own past and future‚Äîin nightclubs with Jeremy, a lonely wannabe DJ; navigating a flirtation with Kaspar, an East Berlin artist he meets at a caf√©; and engaged in a budding relationship with Magda, the enigmatic and icy manager of Sam‚Äôs hotel, whom Sam finds himself drawn to and determined to thaw. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eI Make Envy on Your Disco\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is at once a tribute to Berlin, a novel of longing and connection, and a coming-of-middle-age story about confronting the person you were and becoming the person you want to be. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120353120541,"sku":"9781496239013","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781496239013.jpg?v=1751401955","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/i-make-envy-on-your-disco","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}