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Book Synopsis“Remarkable…Superbly anchored in place and time…[A] brilliant, evocative and accurate novel.”—
The Times (London)
Trade Review"
The Valley of Unknowing is simply superb: affecting but never melodramatic, literary but never less than thrilling. Though Krug is self-pitying, he wins our sympathy…His story, like the manuscript he grudgingly admire, is 'truthfully, tenderly drawn.'" -- David Evans - Financial Times
"Philip Sington has managed something quite remarkable…a flawless, gripping and penetrating depiction of life in the former East Germany, wrapped up as a literary thriller…His feeling for not just time and place, but atmosphere and way of life is perfect in a way that no other Western writer, not even John le Carré, has achieved." -- Peter Millar - The Oldie
"A remarkable novel, the first in English to give us a nuanced portrait of life in Communist East Germany, its absurdity, its menace, and its pervasive sense of betrayal." -- Joseph Kanon, author of The Good German
