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Book Review | Jews at the End of the World

JL;DR SUMMARY Julia Kornberg's debut novel, "Berlin Atomized," paints a harrowing picture of a dystopian world through the experiences of the Jewish Goldstein siblings from Buenos Aires. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureJewish IdentityTraditionArgentinaAbandonmentSibling RelationshipsDystopiaSocietal CollapsePost ApocalypticKornberg

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Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
"Julia Kornbergs debut novel, Berlin Atomized, is an unrelentingly sad story in which three teenage siblingsJeremias, Mateo and Nina Goldstein of Buenos Airesare physically and emotionally abandoned by their parents."
Uruguay
"In the ensuing years, which extend past the present day to 2034 in the novel, the siblings search for love and creativity in Argentina, Uruguay, France, Israel, Germany and Belgium."
France
"In the ensuing years, which extend past the present day to 2034 in the novel, the siblings search for love and creativity in Argentina, Uruguay, France, Israel, Germany and Belgium."
Israel
"In the ensuing years, which extend past the present day to 2034 in the novel, the siblings search for love and creativity in Argentina, Uruguay, France, Israel, Germany and Belgium."
Belgium
"In the ensuing years, which extend past the present day to 2034 in the novel, the siblings search for love and creativity in Argentina, Uruguay, France, Israel, Germany and Belgium."
Berlin, Germany
"The archetypal Jewish narrative of this book is so inside-out that the Goldsteins leave the Americas and Israel to search for home in, of all places, Berlin."

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