Tales from the Fatherland

A pause. 'Ah, Herr Fergusson. It's Frau Schwenk.' Our social worker, I now understood. 'Thank you for getting back to me. I'm calling because we have a little boy, four weeks old, who needs a family.'

About the author

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 Seán O'Faoláin 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.

Summary

A story of adoption, queer parenting and gender expectations around family roles.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Fergusson, Fergusson Ben
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 07.07.2022
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
• EAN: 9781408714294
• ISBN: 978-1-4087-1429-4
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions (packing): 16.2 x 24.6 x 3 cm
• Subjects: Adoption, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, Advice on parenting, Adoption & fostering, Parenthood, Parenting: advice and issues, Of specific Gay interest, Adoption and fostering, Queer Parenting, same sex marriage, same sex adoption, LGBTQI rights, queer adoption, German parenting