"David Rocklin's The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Bergeris historical fiction of the most ambitious and entertaining variety. It begins in Stralsund, Germany just before the turn of the twentieth century, a time when the line between alchemy and modern science is at its most obscure. It unfolds in Berlin as the world wakes to the horrors of the Nazi regime. These pages span the extraordinary ordinary life of Fleischl Berger: thrice-nearly dead son, inventor, silent film star, pioneer of the mind. But it is, above all, a love song."