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Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this "spare, effecting novel," a playboy in WWII Berlin discovers that the bliss of romance cannot shield him from the horrors of war (Publishers Weekly).
Friedrich, a wealthy but naïve young man, arrives in Berlin from Switzerland in 1942 with dreams of becoming an artist. He is hypnotized by Kristin, a beautiful artist's model who teaches him how to navigate a bustling city filled with danger. Yet the horror of war feels far...
Friedrich, a wealthy but naïve young man, arrives in Berlin from Switzerland in 1942 with dreams of becoming an artist. He is hypnotized by Kristin, a beautiful artist's model who teaches him how to navigate a bustling city filled with danger. Yet the horror of war feels far...
2) The club
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Club is a blistering, timely, and gripping novel set at Cambridge University, centering around an all-male dining club for the most privileged and wealthy young men at Cambridge and following an outsider who exposes the dark secrets of this group, the Pitt Club. As a boy, Hans Stichler enjoys a fable-like childhood among the rolling hills and forests of North Germany, living an idyll that seems uninterruptable. A visit from Hans's ailing English...
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