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Synopsis
Joseph Kanon’s The Good German meets Graham Greene’s The Third Man as the Cold War heats up amid the ruins of occupied Berlin.
Set during the winter of 1946–47, one of the coldest on record, Pavel & I unfolds against the tattered social fabric of postwar Berlin. Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue colonel in the British Armed Forces and a Soviet general when an American friend deposits a dead Russian spy in his frozen apartment. The race to take possession of the dead spy’s quarry soon begins threatening Pavel’s friendship with a street orphan named Anders and his budding love for his upstairs neighbor, Sonia. As the action hurtles toward catastrophe, the hunt merges with one for the truth about the novel’s protagonist: Who exactly is Pavel Richter? Peopled with pimps, prostitutes, spies, and a gang of child thieves, Pavel & I explores the power of storytelling to wrest meaning from the wreckage of civilization. An electrifyingly suspenseful novel played out among the first salvos of the Cold War, Pavel & I is a literary debut that introduces a writer of brilliant imagination and virtuosity.
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"The vision of a metropolis choked by ice and brutally devastated by war will stick with me for many months to come." -- Telegraph
"Beautifully overblown, this brave good-bad book succeeds brilliantly."
-- The Daily Telegraph
About the Author
Dan Vyleta is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Germany in the late 1960s. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, and lives and works in Berlin. This is his first novel.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1596914513
- ISBN 13 9781596914513
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages343
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