- Authors, Betrayal, Ambition, Novelists
Aspiring writer Maurice Swift, whose desire for fame exceeds his talent, uses a chance meeting with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann in a West Berlin hotel in 1988 to obtain secrets about Ackermann's wartime activities, which becomes material for his first novel.
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Classical in form, grave, relentless and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- John Boyne
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Limited, Hogarth, Doubleday
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385692915
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