A riveting story about the rivalry between two brothers living on
opposite sides of the Berlin wall during its construction in the 1960s,
and how their complicated legacy and dreams of greatness will determine
their ultimate fate.
**A city divided. A family fractured. Two brothers caught between past
and present.
**
Berlin, 1961. Rudi Möser-Fleischmann is an aspiring photographer with
dreams of greatness, but he can't hold a candle to his talented,
charismatic twin brother Peter, an ambitious actor. With the sudden
divorce of their parents, the brothers find themselves living in
different sectors of a divided Berlin; the postwar partition strangely
mirroring their broken family. But one night, as the city sleeps, the
Berlin Wall is hurriedly built, dividing society further, and Rudi and
Peter are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their
dreams underground. That is, until the truth about their family history
and the growing cracks in their relationship threaten to split them
apart for good.
From National Book Award-nominated, critically acclaimed
author-illustrator Vesper Stamper comes a stark look at how resentment
and denial can strain the bonds of brotherhood to the breaking point.