Books by Fred Uhlman
“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
Interviews where books by Fred Uhlman were recommended
The Best Novellas, recommended by Claire Fuller
The acclaimed novelist Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground, recommends five of the best novellas: short works of fiction that offer the power and intensity of a novel in little more than 100 pages. From an epic-in-miniature set in the American West to an infamous story of bestial love, these books offer short, sharp shocks of fiction that can be enjoyed over a single evening.
