Fast-paced, written in contagious gonzo style, The Berlin Woman is a new kind of no-holds barred love story with leading characters whose wild bohemian lives make for binge-worthy compulsive reading. Alan Kaufman’s latest novel, The Berlin Woman is a haunting love story about two Second Generation Holocaust writers who meet at a literary conference in the Swiss Alps and fall into a mad kind of addictive love affair. A Ukrainian now living in Berlin, Lena is a married, chronically unfaithful, and devoted only to gratifying her ambitions and hard-driving libido. Nathan is a footloose womanizing American author, unable to produce the big novel for which he’s been contracted. They chase each other selfishly, sexually and even digitally across Europe and America, turning their affair into a high-stakes reckless game of jealousy, rivalling ambitions, gender conflict, political combat and artistic outrage. But beneath it all, their hearts are breaking, dark secrets haunt their pasts, while overshadowing their love is a fast-changing, ruthless world in which Anti-Semitism is burgeoning, The Holocaust is denied or forgotten and a new kind of totalitarianism — spearheaded by a new breed of “strongmen” leaders — threatens to sweep Lena, Nathan, and all of humanity, to the very brink of annihilation.