Sojourn

The new novel about the present, the past, and the slippage between private and public life-from a writer who has ''like Proust, mastered the art of the moment.'' (Hilary Mantel)An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines. He moves along its streets and pavements; through its department stores, museums and restauran...