Remote Sympathy: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
$30.13
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2022
Summary
Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other officers’ wives living in this small community anything they could possibly desire, from curtains to furniture to frescos. The looming presence of the nearby prison camp - lying just beyond a p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787703711 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787703711 |
| Author: | Catherine Chidgey |
| Publisher: | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Imprint: | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 129mm x 241mm |
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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
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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