The Ghosts of Berlin: Die Geister von Berlin

By A.E. Sadeghipour

"Disturbingly beautiful. The perfect homage to the city that tore down the wall." - The Forgotten

Once there was a wall. 30 years old and 100 km tall. The city's street veins and building breasts were in twain, and her eyes bricked and shuttered. Her heart pumped petrol and red, and her pulse was drowned in secrets. Trauma and decadence ravaged across her skin as she was abused by power and loved by anarchy. Her body suffered as did the ones buried deep within her. With each rumble, the graves crumbled and the bones sifted into different skeletons. No one could connect to who they once or ever were anymore. 

The city wailed and cried. Her people listened and pushed against her border and tunneled deep within her. The wall was ripped down, and she was free but broken. She called out to the world, and it sent forth its waves of legends. The oldest ones buried in sand and morass. The people arrived, and, with them, the jigsawed city found solace in her pieces. But her fury breeds and multiplies in the human theater.  

-and this is where we are now.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: A.E. Sadeghipour
• Release date: Nov 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393929857

A.E. Sadeghipour

She co-founded the Berlin Diaspora Society, co-parent and teach for the Women Writing Berlin Lab, and teaches writing empowerment workshops for GLADT. She won the Sherry Debrowski Prize for Best Feminist Multi-Genre Fiction writer in 2009. Since then, her work has been featured in: the Berlin based magazine The Wild Word: KCRW's "Holiday Story Telling Special" (2018), The V Series Poetry Anthology by Picture Show Press (2019), Coven’s “Lymph” (2019), Venus: Revolution (2019), What's Afghan Punk Rock Anyway?! and much more. Some of you may already be familiar with her work, and, if you are not, well then, welcome to my strange little world. Email: [e-mail] Web: https://awerfjil.com/

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