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Bruno Krug, celebrated author and secret Stasi informer, is ready to confess...
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Asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript, Bruno finds himself in a quandary when the anonymous author turns out to be none other than his rival. Disconcertingly, the book is good - very good. But there is hope for the older man: the unwelcome masterpiece is also dangerously political. If his affair with Theresa is to prove more than a fling, the enamoured Krug decides he must employ a small deception. But in the Workers' and Peasants' State, knowing the deceiver from the deceived, the betrayer from the betrayed, isn't just difficult: it can be a matter of life and death.
The Valley of Unknowing is both a moving and entertaining love story and a seductive thriller, one that pits the past against the future, commerce against creativity, and art against life.
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'The Valley of Unknowing is simply superb: affecting but never melodramatic, literary but never less than thrilling.' --The Financial Times
'A literary thriller, superbly anchored in place and time. Having lived in East Germany I am astonished by Sington's pitch-perfect recreation of that society... this is a brilliant, evocative and accurate novel, a gripping hard-nosed authentic thriller.' --Peter Millar, The Times
'A flawless, gripping and penetrating depiction of life in the former East Germany, wrapped up as a literary thriller... his feeling for not just time and place but atmosphere and way of life is perfect in a way no other Western writer, not even John Le Carre, has achieved' --The Oldie
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'A literary thriller, superbly anchored in place and time. Having lived in East Germany I am astonished by Sington's pitch-perfect recreation of that society... this is a brilliant, evocative and accurate novel, a gripping hard-nosed authentic thriller.' --Peter Millar, The Times
'A flawless, gripping and penetrating depiction of life in the former East Germany, wrapped up as a literary thriller... his feeling for not just time and place but atmosphere and way of life is perfect in a way no other Western writer, not even John Le Carre, has achieved' --The Oldie
A compelling story set in the last days of East Germany from the author of The Einstein Girl
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1846552915
- ISBN 13 9781846552915
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