BOOK / BERLIN BOOK 2 CITY OF SMOKE. Jason Lutes

POLITICS

The second volume of Jason Lutes's historical epic finds the people of the Weimar Republic searching for answers after the bloody May Day demonstration of 1929. The lives of Berliners intersect to create a seamless portrait of their city as tensions rise between communists and National Socialists, Jews and Gentiles, and World War II looms on the horizon. Marthe Müller accompanies journalist Kurt Severing as he interviews survivors of the May Day massacre, gaining a better understanding of the political conflicts surrounding it, while their relationship crumbles and she is plunged into the city's decadent nightlife. As he did in the first volume of Berlin: City of Stones, Lutes manages to create a sense of anxiety and impending doom.

With Berlin: In City of Smoke, Jason Lutes completes two-thirds of a trilogy that constitutes one of the most ambitious works ever written in graphic novel form. Thanks to his exhaustive research and documentation, he masterfully captures a crucial period in history, such as the rise of Nazism.

“The lives of a journalist, a prostitute, a Black clarinetist, soldiers, politicians, bureaucrats, and others who intersect in the midst of the decline of the Weimar Republic give a human dimension to a turbulent era. Jason Lutes's drawings are so subtle and unsentimental that the violence, when it erupts, is shocking.” The Wall Street Journal

“Berlin, a work of undeniable narrative quality and effective drawing.” Babelia El País

Title: Berlín libro 2, Ciudad de humo
Author: Jason Lutes
Pages: 216
Size: 19 x 25 cm
Weight: 1,040 grams
Genre: Politics
Language: Spanish
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ASTIBERRI
Year: 2005