Remote Sympathy: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022, 9781787703711
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Idyllic life masks a dark secret, an unlikely alliance, and one last hope.

Remote Sympathy: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022

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  • Paperback

    528 pages

  • Release Date

    1 August 2022

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Summary

The Sympathetic Vitaliser: A Novel of Buchenwald

Moving away from Munich is surprisingly easy for Frau Greta Hahn. Their new home is even lovelier than their old one, and the finest craftsmen from all over Europe are right on their doorstep, ready to create anything she and the other officers’ wives desire. The nearby prison camp in Buchenwald is the only blemish on their idyllic life.

Her husband, SS Sturmbannfuhrer Dietrich Hahn, has a powerful new position as camp adminis…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781787703711
ISBN-10:1787703711
Author:Catherine Chidgey
Publisher:Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Imprint:Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:528
Release Date:1 August 2022
Weight:372g
Dimensions:41mm x 241mm x 129mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘Chidgey is a writer of formidable resources, a deft stylist possessed of uncanny imaginative acuity. - The Guardian’‘What a devastating, beautiful and horrifying book that forces one to look at the Holocaust in such a new way. I was utterly gripped all the way through, amazed at Catherine’s ability to get inside her characters so convincingly. And I sobbed at the end.’ - Sofka Zinovieff

About The Author

Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey is an award-winning and bestselling New Zealand novelist and short-story writer. Her first novel, In a Fishbone Church, won the Betty Trask Award, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Golden Deeds was Time Out’s book of the year, a Best Book in the LA Times Book Review and a Notable Book in the New York Times Book Review. Her fourth novel, The Wish Child, was published in 2016 and won the 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the country’s richest literary prize.

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