The second volume of Jason Lutes" ambitious historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Severing acts as a window through which the political shifts within the city and its participants can be seen. As with BERLIN BOOK ONE: CITY OF STONES, Lutes creates a sense of anxiety, of the doom to come.
