![]() heartbreaking and illuminating - Antonia Senior * The Times * One of the best books I've ever read - Jenny Erpenbeck, author * The End of Days * I love this book. An astonishing literary achievement * Daily Telegraph * With restraint and subtlety, Kempowski explores the ordinariness of complicity with evil. Completely gripping * Guardian * Seethes with human drama, contradiction and complexity. ![]() It reaches its last devastating line with poetic sensibility and the grace of a classical tragedy, confirming Kempowski as a truly great writer. Kempowski's late masterwork is a universal tract which suggests that history can only present the facts it is crafted stories such as this which enable us to grasp a sense of the vicious reality of war - Eileen Battersby * Irish Times * A beautiful, forgiving and compassionate book. The distinguished translator Anthea Bell has conveyed Kempowski's wry tone. It is brilliant, vivid, unsentimental, fast moving, cinematic and, for all its apparent ease of telling, scrupulously well-structured. ![]()
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