Marlene Dietrich Lived Here

By Eleanor Bailey

For the last 150 years Berlin has been a city of myth dreams and possibility. For Erich it has been home for over two decades. Yet even after two failed marriages and a stuttering career as a artist he has little to show for it: a pair of dysfunctional children an agoraphobic girlfriend who believes she is Marlene Dietrich and a worthy but unprofitable caf gallery. With the arrival of his younger brother Max recovering from a suicide attempt everything changes. Max has always been the golden one for whom success came easily and yet who never cared. Erich's problem is that he always cared too much.

The brothers are at a crossroads both emotionally and geographically. It is only together that they can claw their way back to life perhaps through the life and times of Europe's most gilded city . . .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055299863X
• ISBN13: 9780552998635
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
• Length: 439 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.9" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Refreshingly modern

I've never been to Berlin but with the colourful description and athmosphere of Marlene Dietrich lived here I feel like I have. The story tells mainly of the brothers, Erich and Max, who try to come to terms with life both in their own way. They struggle to set the past so the present if not the future will be more endurable. The view of Berlin is exceptional and the characters refreshing, European and very believable. They are modern in a way that I have rarely seen before and the story leaves you short of breath and longing for more. It's a story of love, betrayal, a story from the past and of the future but mostly in the presence. A story about two brothers who need to come to terms with themselves and each other.I warmly recommend this unique story.