A pitch-black love letter to Berlin. 13 short stories, 13 perspectives, 13 neighborhoods, and 13 fascinating pieces of a larger puzzle. An exciting literary portrait of the city featuring original stories written specifically for this anthology by established top authors as well as thrilling newcomers. The book portrays Berlin as a metropolis in constant change. Chaotic, colorful, fragmented, and multifaceted. The city has no center, but an infinite number of social spaces, lifestyles, and mentalities. The poor meet the rich, the bourgeois meet the artists, the upwardly mobile meet the fallen. A young woman from a middle-class background ends up in the homeless scene around Zoo Station; a shootout between a former cop and a petty criminal ends fatally; a historian investigates a crime whose origins lie in the turmoil of the post-war years; the delicate love story between a boutique owner...