Author HelonHabila on how to find the 'real' Berlin beyond the spy cliches
Nigerian novelist Helon Habila on the year he and his family moved from Virginia to Germany—and found a friendlier city than stereotypes suggestWE ARRIVED IN BERLIN in the summer of 2013. It wasn’t my first time in the city—I had been to a literature festival a few years earlier, and before that I went for research, each visit just a couple of days.
I felt that I could never get used to the wide, cold and empty streets, and the people who always seemed to have a frown on their faces. I grew up in Nigeria, a former British colony, and many of my encounters with Germans were in spy novels and thrillers, by British and American authors, where Germans tended to be the villains. A lot of that perception still lingered in my psyche. When I told my wife I’d been offered...
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