This Must Be the Place

A ���tealthily original���(The New York Times Book Review) debut novel of two people who find each other when they least expect it in a city haunted by history.BR>
Walter Baum has one of the most famous voices in Germany. A former television star, he�'s been dubbing Tom Cruise�'s lines into German for fifteen years. Now he finds himself nearing forty, alone and adrift. In the apartment below is Hope, a young American woman, isolated in a lonely city. When they finally meet in the elevator of the building they share, what transpires is ���n essential love story for our confused and difficult times.���Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan)