01522nam a2200241u  450000100100000000300070001000500170001700700030003400800410003702000220007802000180010004000250011810000190014324500360016226000390019830000280023750000180026550000770028352007870036065000540114765100500120165500290125175282652 OCoLC 20190501204210.0ta110308r20062001nyu           000 1 eng    a0312942109 (pbk.)  a9780312942106  aNOGcNOGdBAKERdWZW1 aKanon, Joseph.14aThe good German cJoseph Kanon.  aNew York :bPicador,c2002, c2001.  a533 p. :bmap ;c18 cm.  aMovie tie-in.  aOriginally published: New York: Henry Holt; London: Little, Brown, 2001.  aThe bestselling author of Los Alamos and Alibi returns to 1945. Hitler has been defeated, and Berlin is divided into zones of occupation. Jake Geismar, an American correspondent who spent time in the city before the war, has returned to write about the Allied triumph while pursuing a more personal quest, his search for Lena, the married woman he left behind. When the body of an American soldier  is found in the Russian zone during the Potsdam Conference, Jake stumbles on the lead to a murder mystery. The Good German is a story of espionage and love, an extraordinary recreation of a city devastated by war, and a thriller that asks the most profound ethical questions in its exploration of the nature of justice, and what we mean by good and evil in times of peace and of war. 0aForeign correspondentszGermanyzBerlinvFiction. 0aBerlin (Germany)xSocial conditionsvFiction. 7aSuspense fiction.2gsafd