Crazy In Berlin [Paperback]

Crazy in Berlinis the first volume in the saga of Carlo Reinhart. As an army medic stationed in Allied-occupied Germany, Reinhart is a young man of large bulk (two hundred pounds, plus)—good-hearted, intelligent, and something of a fool. He pursues with anxiety and bewilderment his custodial role over a shattered and noxious civilization, accompanied by an assortment of influences: Nathan Schild, an American Communist acting as a U.S. intelligence office; the war waif Trudchen, an accommodating Heidi; Schatzi, a charter-member Nazi, now a Russian courier and black market virtuoso.Crazy in Berlinis a lusty tale, full of irony and wit, of a stumbling American Odysseus.

Praise forCrazy In Berlin
 
“Thomas Berger is a name to remember. . . . A novelist with a great career before him.”—Harvey Swados,The New Leader

“One of the best war novels, and one of our best novels no matter what kind.”—W.G. Rogers, Associated Press

“An ambitious mixture of high moral earnestness and knock-about farce.”—Pearl Bell,CommentaryThomas Berger(1924–2014), whom theTimes Literary Supplement called “one of the century’s most important writers,” was the author of twenty-three novels.Little Big Manhas been published in more than fifty editions throughout the world.US