Goodbye to Berlin

"A collection of short stories describing the seedy lives of a group of Berliners and expatriates who fail to foresee the dramatic impact the Nazis eventually have on German society. The musical Cabaret is based in part on this collection."@en
"Fictionalized memoirs about a powerful city, its people, and its dangers, in the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power."@en
"Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of 'Goodbye to Berlin'. His story obliquely evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals: his landlady, Fraulein Schroeder; Sally Bowles, the English upper-class waif; the Nowaks, a struggling working-class family; and the Landauers, a wealthy family of Jewish store owners, whose lives are about to be ruined."
"Follows the seedy lives of a group of Berliners and expatriates who fail to foresee the dramatic impact the Nazis eventually have on German society."@en
"A collection of stories that captures the decadent, gaudy atmosphere of 1930s Berlin, which falsely covered the increasing horror of Hitler's rise to power."@en