Presents the author’s recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin’s West End. This book focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child, a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one. It tells about the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of the metropolis.

Format: Paperback
Published: in USA in 2006
Publisher: Harvard Univ Press
Pages: 192
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780674022225
ISBN 10: 067402222X