- English literature, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, political
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic.
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Prestige, grave, contemplative and open-ended.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Deborah Levy
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books, Limited, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781632869852
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