Guilt
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Murray Press
Published:27th Apr '23
Should be back in stock very soon
'Devastating and fascinating' New York Times
'Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose' Observer
A group of respectable family men are charged with the brutal murder of a teenager.
A promising student gets caught up in a sadistic schoolboy gang.
A couple are bound together by the events of one bloody night.
Where do you draw the line between good and evil?
In Guilt, people commit violent, extraordinary acts; some are convicted in a court of law, others are not. But our narrator, a nameless lawyer, knows that this is never the whole story.
Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach's eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, the stories in Guilt blur fiction and truth, compelling us to question the difference between guilt and justice, innocence and complicity.
Praise for Ferdinand von Schirach * - *
Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose * Observer *
Tantalising and disturbing in equal measure -- Laura Wilson * Guardian *
An exceptional prose stylist * New York Times *
A magnificent storyteller * Der Spiegel *
Psychologically raw . . . delivered in a crisp translation by Katharina Hall, his unfussy prose is icily effective . . . it suggests that all justice systems are flawed, that they are all just processes. And, with immense empathy, von Schirach's stories show what happens to people when they are processed. -- Christian House * Financial Times *
The stories are cool, meticulously crafted, pithy and mordantly amusing . . . this is an unsettling, affecting, extremely powerful book. Highly recommended -- Declan Hughes * Irish Times *
An impressive page-turner with substance and bite * Bookmunch *
Thrilling and edgy, often carrying a twist in the tale -- To the Ends of the Word blog
ISBN: 9781399809573
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 18mm
Weight: 140g
192 pages