Tales from the Fatherland
Two Dads, One Adoption and the Meaning of Parenthood
$58.83
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2022
Summary
A pause. ‘Ah, Herr Fergusson. It’s Frau Schwenk.’ Our social worker, I now understood. ‘Thank you for getting back to me. I’m calling because we have a little boy, four weeks old, who needs a family.’
In 2018, after the introduction of marriage equality in Germany, Ben Fergusson and his German husband Tom became one of the first same-sex married couples to adopt in the country. In Tales from the Fatherland Fergusson reflects on his long journey to fatherhood and the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408714294 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1408714299 |
| Author: | Ben Fergusson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 162mm x 30mm |
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Necessary and illuminating…he is a fine comic writer * Times Literary Supplment *
About The Author
Ben Fergusson
Ben Fergusson’s debut novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier, was awarded the Betty Trask Prize and the HWA Debut Crown, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Other Hoffmann Sister and An Honest Man complete a trilogy of novels set in the same apartment block in Berlin at key moments in the city’s twentieth-century history. His short fiction has been published in journals internationally and in 2020 he won the Sean O’Faolain International Short Story Prize. He also translates from German, winning a 2020 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. Ben lives in Berlin with his husband and son.
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