The Undertaking

An immensely powerful first novel set in Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II, its ambition and achievement reminiscent of Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin, Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Helen Dunmore's The Siege.

About the author

Audrey Magee worked for twelve years as a journalist and has written for, among others, The Times, The Irish Times, the Observer and the Guardian. She studied German and French at University College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University. She lives in Wicklow with her husband and three daughters. The Undertaking is her first novel; her second, The Colony, was published in 2022 and longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Summary

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014, this is an immensely powerful novel about an ordinary German couple trying to build a life amidst the trauma of World War II.

Product details

• Authors: Audrey Magee, Magee Audrey
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.08.2014
• EAN: 9781782391050
• ISBN: 978-1-78239-105-0
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction: general and literary