The Lost Europeans

One of the best unsung novelists of our time -- Valentine Cunningham
The great forgotten novel of post-war Berlin... both moving and forensic in its portrayal of a shabby and still only partly repaired city: recently divided between East and West but united by a common past of such monstrosity that the most prosaic presences and encounters shriek of murder' -- Patrick Wright
Litvinoff’s novel is as much about place as people, and he excels with his portrait of post war, pre-Wall Berlin... We accompany them through a city of victims and survivors, perpetrators and ghosts – all the time wondering why so fine a book could languish so long in obscurity. Now this overlooked gem can sparkle again' * Herald *
A real treat... This is still some achievement and has been the book I have enjoyed most to date in Apollo's surprisingly wide-ranging series of eight of "the best books you've never read"' * Nudge Book *
Litvinoff is a wonderful chronicler of city life... he conjures up post-war Berlin down to the very smells... Full of heart and sensitivity... it is a compelling investigation into guilt and complicity' * TLS *
A heady evocation of a city in moral stasis... Litvinoff is excellent on describing the dichotomy between Berlin's sullen monochrome East and devil-may-care West, but it is with his intriguing melee of heroes, vagabonds and miscreants that he brings post-War Berlin dizzyingly to life' * BookWitty *