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Author: Ben Fergusson
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Little, Brown
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 3.70cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.710kg
ISBN: 9781408708897
ISBN 10: 1408708892
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 04 May 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award in 2015, Ben Fergusson was much praised for his first novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier...The Other Hoffmann Sister confirms the talent for atmospheric, morally complex historical fiction that Fergusson showed in his first novel...An engrossing exploration of the ways that secrecy, racism and snobbery take their toll on its finely realised characters' Sunday Times A fascinating look at racism and snobbery. Broken postwar Germany is superbly drawn and events in Africa are eye-openingly horrific The Times [An] atmospheric, morally complex historical novel Sunday Times Culture 'Must Read' Taut, subtle, ambitious and engrossing. A gripping story of conflicting loyalties spanning a turbulent and changing world Imogen Robertson, author of The Paris Winter A beautiful, compelling read with exquisitely drawn characters. Wonderful Jason Hewitt, author of Devastation Road Elegantly crafted and engrossing - Fergusson's The Other Hoffmann Sister is excellent William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier Beguiling, unsettling, and wonderfully atmospheric. A dark expedition across a nightmarish landscape of physical and emotional damage and moral decay Sarah Waters, praise for The Spring of Kasper Meier
Taut, subtle, ambitious and engrossing. A gripping story of conflicting loyalties spanning a turbulent and changing world Imogen Robertson, author of The Paris Winter A beautiful, compelling read with exquisitely drawn characters. Wonderful Jason Hewitt, author of Devastation Road Beguiling, unsettling, and wonderfully atmospheric. A dark expedition across a nightmarish landscape of physical and emotional damage and moral decay Sarah Waters, praise for The Spring of Kasper Meier
Taut, subtle, ambitious and engrossing. A gripping story of conflicting loyalties spanning a turbulent and changing world Imogen Robertson, author of The Paris Winter A beautiful, compelling read with exquisitely drawn characters. Wonderful Jason Hewitt, author of Devastation Road Elegantly crafted and engrossing - Fergusson's The Other Hoffmann Sister is excellent William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier Beguiling, unsettling, and wonderfully atmospheric. A dark expedition across a nightmarish landscape of physical and emotional damage and moral decay Sarah Waters, praise for The Spring of Kasper Meier
Author Information
Ben Fergusson's debut novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier, was awarded the Betty Trask Prize and the HWA Debut Crown, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Other Hoffmann Sister and An Honest Man complete a trilogy of novels set in the same apartment block in Berlin at key moments in the city's twentieth-century history. His short fiction has been published in journals internationally and in 2020 he won the Sean O'Faolain International Short Story Prize. He also translates from German, winning a 2020 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. Ben lives in Berlin with his husband and son.
