Borders

Roy Jacobsen author Don Shaw translator Don Bartlett translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Quercus Publishing

Published:3rd Mar '16

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Robert Junior never knew the father he was named for, an American G.I. who was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and fell briefly into the arms of a Belgian nurse.

Growing up with his mother in the lush forests of the Ardennes, Robert turns for guidance to his godfather, Markus Hebel, a Belgian who served in the German army in Russia.

Breaking the silence around his painful past, Markus speaks of the consequences and madness of war - of the son he lost at Stalingrad and the courage of the men who tried to free the trapped German soldiers with a desperate charge across the frozen steppe.

In so doing, Markus reveals a secret he has kept since the war, and a doubt that has gnawed at him for twenty years. Did he, a lowly radio operator, waste a chance to save an entire army from annihilation?

With its mix of vivid characters, real and fictional, struggling to make sense of the excesses of war and its aftermath, this is a strange but compelling novel. I highly recommend it -- Rupert Godsal * Country Life *
An iconic Norwegian writer -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
A great European novel -- Terje Eidsvåg * Adresseavisen *
You cannot put this book down -- Kjell Olaf Jensen, * Dagsavisen *

ISBN: 9781782069584

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 24mm

Weight: 200g

288 pages