Philippe Claudel: German Fantasia [2023] paperback Condition:New not only managing to escape

not only managing to escape that shadow

He ruled alone from 169

'A stark reminder that barriers can never cut people off entirely but only succeed in driving them underground

her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept

he wonders

Philippe Claudel: German Fantasia [2023] paperback Condition:New not only managing to escapeA deserting soldier treks through the torn up countryside and abandoned villages, trying to distance himself from the atrocities of war. An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger who whispered another man's name. A young woman takes up a job in a care home, spending monotonous days scrubbing floors and yearning to dance at the local nightclub. The artist Franz Marc lives on