An International Bestseller
Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the East Berlin zoo was spacious and lush, a socialist utopia where everything was perfectly planned . . . and then rarely successfully finished. Berlina�TMs two zoos quickly became symbols of the divided citya�TMs two halves. So no one was terribly surprised when the head zookeepers on either side started an animal arms race a�" competing to have the most pandas and hippos. The Zookeepersa�TM War is an epic tale of an animal-mad city in which zookeeping became a way of continuing politics by other means.