"Deeply depressing fare that leaves a sour aftertaste."
Set primarily in London, this excruciatingly dark novel from Hacker (The Lifeguard, 2002, etc.), which won the 2006 German Book Prize, uses the colliding fates of a vapid middle-class German couple, an abused British child and a vicious petty criminal to reflect the malevolent undercurrents rumbling through post-9/11 Europe.
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"A fascinating subject and fine storytelling merge in this novel of a Spanish gender-bender."
A rollicking, captivating account of Catalina d'Erauso, a real-life 17th-century Spanish woman who went to the New World and lived as a man.
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"Not quite The Name of the Rose, to which comparison is inevitable, but most entertaining and engrossing nevertheless."
The combative world of 15th-century scholarship is a hotbed of murder and intrigue in this vivid German debut, the work of a former student of medieval philosophy.
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