{"product_id":"9781911413790","title":"The Dancing Bear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘You don’t want to mind about any of this,’ said the driver, waving a hand at the grey ruins and the greyer dust. ‘In a few days you’ll be so used to it that you’ll like them. Berlin’s a grand place! I’d rather be here than anywhere else in the world, and that’s a fact.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘No more perceptive portrait of Germany in defeat has been etched in word than Frances Faviell’s first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Dancing Bear\u003c\/em\u003e, which made so powerful an impact upon me that I read it in a single sitting.’ Guy Ramsey, \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Berlin during the decisive years from 1946 to 1949. … The prostitution which paid so handsomely; the black market which brought in rich rewards, although it meant that the Berliners had to part with treasured possessions; the night clubs which catered for still baser tastes; the impoverished intellectuals and the starving professors and the poor who had only their wits with which to eke out a bare sustenance—all this and much else the author describes with insight, incisiveness, and realism.’ \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘There is great charity in this book; there is the sharp, limpid eye of the artist; there is sound realism; and there is an unswerving, passionate desire to tell the truth.” John Connell, \u003cem\u003eEvening News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘They were hard and terrible times, and brilliantly does Frances Faviell describe them for us. We meet the Altmann family and follow their joys and troubles. … The book is a brilliant pen-picture of the post-war years. We have British, French, American and Russian characters, but the background is always Berlin, and the strange tunes to which its bear danced.’ \u003cem\u003eLiverpool Daily Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes an afterword by Frances Faviell’s son, John Parker, and additional supplementary material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dean Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051804082416,"sku":"9781911413790","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911413790_p0.jpg?v=1763630996","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911413790","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}