Coming out in a few weeks: The Violent Century by Lavie
Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton £18.99). Thgis book has been eagerly
anticipated, so not long to wait now.
“They’d never meant to be heroes. For seventy years they
guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound
together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the
Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.
But there must always be an account … and the past has a habit of catching up to the present. Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism – a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields – to answer one last, impossible question: What makes a hero?"
The James Ellroy quote calls it a "phantasmagoric reconfiguring" of the 20th century.
But there must always be an account … and the past has a habit of catching up to the present. Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism – a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields – to answer one last, impossible question: What makes a hero?"
The James Ellroy quote calls it a "phantasmagoric reconfiguring" of the 20th century.
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