News from Berlin
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News from Berlin

Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke

ABOUT
THE BOOK

June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl, a ‘good’ German who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Briefly reunited with her father in a restaurant in Geneva, Emma drops a bombshell. A date and a codename, and the fate of nations is placed in Verschuur’s hands: June 22, Barbarossa.

What should he do? Warn the world, or put his daughter’s safety first? The Gestapo are watching them both. And with Stalin lulled by his alliance with Hitler, will anyone even listen?

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Otto
de Kat

Otto de Kat is fast gaining a reputation as one of Europe’s sharpest and most lucid writers.

News from Berlin, a book for all readers, a true page-turner driven by the pulse of a ticking clock, confirms him as a storyteller of subtly extravagant gifts.

Otto de Kat is fast gaining a reputation as one of Europe’s sharpest and most lucid writers.

News from Berlin, a book for all readers, a true page-turner driven by the pulse of a ticking clock, confirms him as a storyteller of subtly extravagant gifts.

NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Gripping novel about the almost impossible decisions a Dutch diplomate in Bern has to make in the Second World War.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
01/01/2015
Country
Netherlands
Original Language
Dutch
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Translator
Ina Rilke
Translation
Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke

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