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November 2011 Guest Editor Victoria Hislop selects Fatherland...
Fatherland by Robert Harris is an amazing novel. In fact all his novels are great, but this just happens to be my favourite. Robert Harris always does extensive and exhaustive research into the history/ideas behind his novels but he then deftly puts it to one side and crafts his story. He does something that I greatly aspire to: he wears his research lightly so that we learn a lot while reading his books, but we are not being hit over the head with his knowledge though we know it is there. I admire him hugely and would like to achieve the same effect.
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It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich.
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Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth - a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780099527893 |
| Publication date: |
1st October 2009 |
| Author: |
Robert Harris |
| Publisher: |
Arrow Books Ltd an imprint of Cornerstone |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
386 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Robert Harris Press Reviews
'Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail' Daily Telegraph
'Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock' Daily Mail
'A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock' Guardian
'Robert Harris has recreated the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep' Sunday Times
'Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarre are. The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and superior class' The Times
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About Robert Harris
Robert Harris is the author of eight bestselling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost, Lustrum and The Fear Index. Several of his books have been filmed, most recently The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in the village of Kintbury, west Berkshire, with his wife Gill Hornby and a fluctuating number of children.
In 2014 he was inducted into the CWA Hall of Fame.
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