Punishment

The stories are cool, meticulously crafted, pithy and mordantly amusing … this is an unsettling, affecting, extremely powerful book. Highly recommended – Declan Hughes * Irish Times *
Translated with economical elegance by Hall … and informed by insider knowledge … it’s a chilling insight into a flawed justice system, the people who work in it and the guilty and guileless who find themselves judged * Daily Mail *
Psychologically raw … delivered in a crisp translation by Katharina Hall, his unfussy prose is icily effective … it suggests that all justice systems are flawed, that they are all just processes. And, with immense empathy, von Schirach’s stories show what happens to people when they are processed. – Christian House * Financial Times *
An impressive page-turner with substance and bite * Bookmunch *
Thrilling and edgy, often carrying a twist in the tale * To the Ends of the Word blog *

Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964, and has worked as a defence lawyer for twenty years. He published his first book at the age of 45 and has since published various short stories, novels, essays and plays. Ferdinand von Schirach’s books have been translated into more than 40 languages, and have sold millions of copies worldwide. He lives in Berlin.

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