Kingdom of Twilight

@2@@20@HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH - @18@THE TIMES@19@@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@One night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland@21@. An S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish Jew, Margarita Ejzenstain. In retaliation, his commander orders the execution of thirty-seven Poles - one for every year of the dead man's life. First hidden by a German couple, Margarita must then flee the brutal advance of the Soviet army with her new-born baby. @3@@2@So begins a thrilling panorama of intermingled destinies and events that reverberate from that single act of defiance. @20@KINGDOM OF TWILIGHT @21@follows the lives of Jewish refugees and a German family resettled from Bukovina, as well as a former S.S. officer, chronicling the geographical and psychological dislocation generated by war. A quest for identity and truth takes them from Displaced Persons camps to Lübeck, Berlin, Tel Aviv and New York, as they try to make sense of a changed world, and of their place in it. @3@@2@Hypnotically lyrical and intensely moving, Steven Uhly's epic novel is a finely nuanced and yet shattering exploration of universal themes: love, hatred, doubt, survival, guilt, humanity and redemption.@3@@2@For readers of HHHH by Laurent Binet, THE KINDLY ONES by Jonathan Littell, THE ZONE OF INTEREST by Martin Amis, and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr@3@@2@@20@Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch@21@@3@

Product details

• Authors: Steven Uhly, Uhly Steven
• Assisted by: Jamie Bulloch (Translation), Bulloch Jamie (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780857054982
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-498-2
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 48 mm
• Series: MacLehose Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Israel, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, Second World War fiction, Germany, HISTORY / Holocaust, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1940 to c 1949