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The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love. When the newlywed strangers finally meet, however, passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves facing the terrible consequences of being ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt...

The Undertaking: The debut novel by the author of THE COLONY, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

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The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeA soldier on the Russian Front... Read more

    Publisher: Atlantic Books
    Publication Date: 04/09/2014
    ISBN13: 9781782391050, 978-1782391050
    ISBN10: 1782391053

    Number of Pages: 304

    Fiction , Historical Fiction

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    The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

    A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love. When the newlywed strangers finally meet, however, passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves facing the terrible consequences of being ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt...

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