News from Berlin
$33.34
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
10 March 2015
Summary
June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl, a ‘good’ German who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Briefly reunited with her father in a restaurant in Geneva, Emma drops a bombshell. A date and a codename, and the fate of nations is placed in Verschuur’s hands: June 22, Barbarossa.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848662346 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848662343 |
| Author: | Otto de Kat, Ina Rilke |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 10 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 132mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
‘A compelling portrait of love, loss and regret’ Lucy Popescu, Independent on Sunday .
‘A compelling portrait of love, loss and regret’ – Lucy Popescu * Independent on Sunday *
‘A masterclass in how less can be more, packed full of atmosphere, emotion and philosophical debate’ – Kathy Stephenson * Daily Mail *
‘A sweeping epic, even though it’s only 200 pages long … Enough material for a 12-part TV miniseries … de Kat can break your heart in 200 words, never mind 200 pages’ – Roger Cox * Scotland on Sunday *
Otto de Kat
Otto de Kat is the pen name of the founder of Dutch non-fiction publishing house Balans, Jan Guert Gaarlandt, also a poet, novelist and critic. His prize-winning novels have been widely published in Europe, and Man on the Move was the winner of the Netherlands’ Halewijn Literature Prize.
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