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Book SynopsisChristopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as
Mr. Norris Changes Trains and
Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical
Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel
A Single Man was recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore
Trade ReviewThe classical opposition between the good brother and the bad one convinces… you believe in them * Guardian *
A radiant novel of mystical devotion and worldly desire by a master of English prose * Chicago Tribune *
Brilliant, vital, challenging . . . very strange and very lovely * Book Week *
