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Please click here to read an interview with me about my novel, the radio series and life in Berlin in the Financial Times.

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Please click here to read a lovely piece about Berlin twenty years after the fall of the Wall that mentions the novel and also my radio series for NPR, Berlin Stories.

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from Paperback Row in The New York Times Sunday Book Review:"THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, by Anna Winger (Riverhead, $16.) A woman (a young teacher with a personal tragedy who has followed her workaholic husband to Berlin), a man (her neighbor, a washed-up German actor) and Berlin itself (which “moved forward with a lack of vanity that she found relaxing”) are the main characters in this smart first

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Click here to read a funny article I wrote for the Times Magazine Style section this weekend about recycling...

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"Stealthily original...In This Must Be the Place, Winger avoids the braggadocio of typical expatriate fiction, telling a story rooted in universal human emotions - love, loneliness, grief, fear of change and, yes, hope - among people whose identity is more complicated than their citizenship."It is a rare and wonderful experience to be understood. To read the rest of this fantastic review, please

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The Jewish Daily Forward says "It’s a pleasure to read a story about finding oneself again not though romance but through friendship."To read the rest of this lovely review, please click here.

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Please click here to read a very nice piece by Maxim Biller in Die Zeit (in German)...

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Please click here to see Penguin's reading guide about the book, a list of questions for discussion!

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Berlin Stories for NPR Worldwidewww.berlinstories.org(Our fabulous logo designed by Christoph Niemann)

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An article I wrote for the Times Magazine in 2006, about celebrating passover in Berlin, has been anthologized in a new book called Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table. Many of my favorite writers, like Ann Patchett, Heidi Julavits and Tom Perotta, are also included in the collection. I am quite thrilled. In stores this week!

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Please click here to read an article I wrote for the New York Times Magazine this week. Photo by Reinhard Hunger.

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Please click here to watch the new ad for the ONE Campaign.

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Please click here to read an interview with me about Berlin and the Jewish themes explored in This Must Be the Place.(At left is a drawing I love by the artist Stephanie Snider. It could be an illustration of my novel!)

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"Stealthily original...In This Must Be the Place, Winger avoids the braggadocio of typical expatriate fiction, telling a story rooted in universal human emotions - love, loneliness, grief, fear of change and, yes, hope - among people whose identity is more complicated than their citizenship."It is a rare and wonderful experience to be understood. To read the rest of this fantastic review, please

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"This Must Be the Place is a smart, tasteful novel...Ms. Winger's ...German characters look back not to the recent years of change, or to the difficult years after World War II, but to the '80s, when West Berlin's cultural orientation was more pro-American than it is now. Walter's favorite meeting restaurant is called the Wild West. In the world of the novel, Walter is a kind of "good German"

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CAMBRIDGE on August 19: Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, 7pmSAN FRANCISCO on August 21: The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street at 7:30pmLOS ANGELES on August 22: Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd. at 7pmNEW YORK on August 25: Housing Works Bookstore 126 Crosby Street in SoHo at 7pm

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"Hope, the melancholy protagonist of Anna Winger's This Must Be ThePlace, follows her estranged husband to Berlin shortly after 9/11. Finding herself marooned in their palatial apartment...she struggles to gain a toehold in the unfamiliar, rapidly transforming city. Then she befriends her neighbor, a once-famous soap actor who has made a second career in dubbing as the German voice of Tom Cruise

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An article I wrote for the New York Times Magazine about celebrating Passover in Berlin will be included a book of food essays edited by Amanda Hesser called Eat, Memory. It will be published by Norton in November 2008.Please click on the post title above to read it.

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"In Winger's touching and emotionally turbulent debut, the fantasy of new beginnings gives way to a persistent sense of haunted—but oddly comforting—history. Set in Berlin in the late fall of 2001, the novel focuses on the overlapping stories of grieving American expat Hope and has-been minor German celebrity Walter, who's dreaming of a new career in Hollywood. The real drama arises between the

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This is the picture I was talking about in the article below. For more about the photographer, Deborah Turbeville, please go to her website.

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I originally wrote this article for Vogue, about my discovery, as a young photographer, of a gorgeous Deborah Turbeville picture that ran in the magazine in 1975. Since the new novel I am writing now takes place in Mexico in the 1990s, I often think about that time in my life, in my twenties. The portrait of me (left) was taken in Oaxaca in 1994 by the artist Judith Golden.NostalgiaBy Anna

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This Must Be the Place has been printed! A copy of the real thing is on its way to me across the Atlantic. It won't be in stores till August 14, but my editor at Riverhead received the first few copies today. It will be incredible to finally hold it in my hands.

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"The star of the book is Berlin itself. Winger deftly reveals its history and cultural significance: the secrets of the elegant 19th-century building where Walter and Hope live; the playground located in the footprint of a building bombed during World War II; West Berlin as an insular beacon of democracy; the role of a new Berlin after German unification. References to Berlin's vanished Jewish

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The artist Aura Rosenberg has asked me to participate in the project Who Am I? What Am I? Where Am I? that she will publish this fall with the art book company Hatje Cantz. Each artist was asked to set up a photograph reflecting ideas that adults project onto children. I decided to play with the romantic future fantasies that we inadvertently encourage in little girls. To my dismay (but not

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Here is the English original of the article I wrote last winter for the Frankfuter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) about rediscovering the spirit of my old New York life in Berlin. Before you read it, let me add the disclaimer that I still love New York! The piece is based on impressions I had last summer, while staying in the West Village, a neighborhood that has changed particularly in recent years.

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