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“It’s mostly set in 1932, in Stuttgart, and it’s about the friendship of two schoolboys. I think they’re about 13. Konradin and Hans. Konradin comes from an aristocratic German family and Hans is Jewish, so they are quite unlikely friends. As a reader, you know what’s coming, because it’s set in the 1930s. But that is so beautifully underplayed. It’s very clever. Very well handled and not sentimental. Very simple, very sharp, beautiful.” Read more...
Claire Fuller, Novelist
