Chloe Aridjis grew up in the Netherlands and in Mexico. She studied literature at Harvard and then wrote her PhD in 19th-century French poetry and magic shows at Oxford. She lived in Berlin for 5 1/2 years and became enamored of its public transportation system. Her first novel, Book of Clouds, is set in Berlin was recently published in the US by Grove Press/Black Cat. Please read a review in the New York Times and the first chapter here

Image from Projektgruppe ‘Licht + Farbe’ by C. Brachmann, M. Hörsch, G. Kohrmann