Product description
A gripping journey into the twisting moral maze of the twentieth century – a journey to uncover a radioactive family secret
"The best book I've read in the past year... A masterpiece" — Financial Times
Joe Dunthorne never met his great-grandfather Siegfried: an eccentric Jewish scientist who escaped Nazi Berlin in the 1930s and snuck back under cover of night to rescue the family heirlooms. Decades later, Siegfried wrote about his adventures in a memoir so long and rambling that almost no one ever managed to read it. Decades after that, his great-grandson Joe unearthed the dusty manuscript and got a nasty surprise. Because hidden on page 1,692 of the unreadable memoir was a shocking confession...
"A voyage into the heart of twentieth-century darkness [...] narrated with the twists and turns of a detective story" — Observer
Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2026
Shortlisted for the TLS Ackerley Prize 2026
Specifications
| Product ID / ISBN / EAN | 9780241517475 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Condition | New |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2 Apr 2026 |
| Number of Pages | 320 |
| Width | 12.9 cm |
| Height | 19.6 cm |
| Depth | 2.3 cm |