Philip Kerr: March Violets: A Bernie Gunther Novel

March Violets: A Bernie Gunther Novel


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Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a brilliantly innovative thriller-writer, Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. The first book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, March Violets introduces readers to Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he d seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin until he turned freelance and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. Hard-hitting, fast-paced, and richly detailed, March Violets is noir writing at its blackest and best."

When his snowman comes to life, a little boy invites him into his home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside, in a classic wordless story with a new cover. An ALA Notable Children's Book. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at \'Two Acres\', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George\'s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever. Linking the Sawle and Valance families irrevocably, the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary events in a larger story, told and interpreted in different ways over the coming century, and subjected to the scrutiny of critics and biographers with their own agendas and anxieties. In a sequence of widely separated episodes we follow the two families through startling changes in fortune and circumstance. At the centre of this often richly comic history of sexual mores and literary reputation runs the story of Daphne, from innocent girlhood to wary old age. Around her Hollinghurst draws an absorbing picture of an England constantly in flux. As in \"The Line of Beauty\", his impeccably nuanced exploration of changing taste, class and social etiquette is conveyed in deliciously witty and observant prose. Exposing our Colouring the World: A Sophisticated Activity Book for Adults 2015 download book secret longings to the shocks and surprises of time, \"The Stranger\'s Child\" is an enthralling novel from one of the finest writers in the English language.


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Author: Philip Kerr
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 27 Jul 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780142004142
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