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One novel on the list:
It's this pre-Wall yet segregated city that takes centre stage in The Innocent, its disconnection as much a character as the novel's young English protagonist. Starting from the true story of a joint CIA-MI6 surveillance project, Ian McEwan has written an edge-of-the-seat espionage story that's also a searing tale of lost innocence and the untrustworthiness of naivete. His Berlin is both corrupted and corrupting, west as well as east.Read the complete blog entry.
--Marshal Zeringue