The Spring of Kaspar Meier

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Perfect for fans of Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada and The Girl Who Fell Fromthe Sky by Simon Mawer - tightly plotted, emotionally gripping and a brilliantsense of place and period. Berlin, 1946. Everything is in short supply.Including the truth. The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble.There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The localpopulation is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier is one of these Germans, andhis solution is to trade on the black market to feed himself and his elderlyfather. He can find anything that people need, for the right price. Even otherpeople. When a young woman, Eva, arrives at Kasper's door seeking thewhereabouts of a British pilot, he feels a reluctant sympathy for her butwon't interfere in military affairs. But Eva is prepared for this. Kasper hassecrets, she knows them, and she'll use them to get what she wants. As thethreats against him mount, Kasper is drawn into a world of intrigue he couldnever have anticipated. Why is Eva so insistent that he find the pilot? Who isthe shadowy Frau Beckmann and what is her hold over Eva? Under constantsurveillance, Kasper navigates the dangerous streets and secrets of a citystill reeling from the horrors of war and defeat. As a net of deceit, lies andbetrayal falls around him, Kasper begins to understand that the seeminglyrandom killings of members of the occupying forces are connected to his ownsituation. He must work out who is behind Eva's demands, and why - while atthe same time trying to save himself, his father and Eva. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 80be1a4b-90a6-43bd-8fbd-ab0e35ce7450

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Ben Fergusson's debut novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier, was awarded the Betty Trask Prize and the HWA Debut Crown, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Other Hoffmann Sister and An Honest Man complete a trilogy of novels set in the same apartment block in Berlin at key moments in the city's twentieth-century history. His short fiction has been published in journals internationally and in 2020 he won the Seán O'Faoláin International Short Story Prize. He also translates from German, winning a 2020 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. Ben lives in Berlin with his husband and son.