After the Berlin Wall: Germany and Beyond, edited by Katharina Gerstenberger and Jana Evans Braziel, has now been published by Palgrave Macmillan.  The book presents a collection of essays exploring the historical, cultural, political and literary dimension s of the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath both in Germany and internationally.  Chapter Seven of the book is “Seventh of November”, a chapter from my novel, Berliner Ensemble.

Of the book, James J. Sheehan, Professor of Modern European History, Emeritus at Stanford University says: “Braziel and Gerstenberger have collected an impressive set of original, stimulating and sometimes provocative essays that trace the enduring significance of the fall of the wall, both in Germany and beyond.  This is an important contribution to the growing literature on the end of the Cold War.”

Of my chapter, the editors say: “Imagining a post-Wall world in ruins, Cowie’s fiction poignantly and presciently alerts twenty-first century readers to the fine lyrical line between triumph and demise, celebration and disaster.  Cowie thus compels readers to envision, in imaginative if dark scenarios of catastrophe, the post-wall remnants that still resurface in the ‘age of terror’ and in the midst of the ongoing global terror war.”

You can find out more about After the Berlin Wall here.

You can hear me discuss the novel, and read from the chapter that appears in the book here.

You can buy the book in all good bookshops, or the usual online places.