The Shadows of Berlin / by Dovid Bergelson; translated by Joachim Neugroschel

City Lights, 2005. 

Shadows of Berlin is, in part, a bleak chronicle of life in Europe growing ever more hostile at the edge of World War II, part mythic parable. Bergelson’s stories—passionate, honest, dark and often hilarious—hint at the possibility of redemption even as they suggest a horror just around the corner.