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Breathtaking Very few books seem utterly true to life as most of us live it. Very few books can reduce me to tears. This is one. It is a book of enormous beauty and absolute honesty. Bravo!
A very good novel This is a fascinating novel about the unlikely friendship - and tensions - between a philosopher who distrusts ideologies and theories of history and a German aristocrat obsessed with the destiny of his country and seeking to overthrow Hitler. The story is told in a number of ways - from the vantage point of the present day, through the lens of memoir and historical reconstruction. I enjoyed it a lot.
An unhistorical historical novel This book has the most off-putting first page I think I have ever read. Never mind: it quickly gripped my attention. It is quite avowedly about the relationship between Isaiah Berlin, the Jewish Oxford philosopher, and Adam von Trott, the German aristocrat who had been a Rhodes scholar in Oxford and, while there, had been a close friend of Berlin's. Von Trott was a patriot for the "real" Germany, abhorring the Nazis, but feeling deeply the humiliating loss of German territories at Versailles. Back in his... more info
Read it now How can anyone write a book this good? Justin Cartwright struggles to write an indifferent sentence, let alone a poor book, but this one must be his best yet.
Maybe Bloomsbury don't bother too much with promoting their authors - with J.K.Rowling in the stable why should they bother?- but the fact that Cartwright is still a minority taste suggests there is something profoundly wrong somewhere. The combination of deeply moving storyline, complex and minutely thought through personal relationships and... more info
