**NOW LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021** A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail JOHN SELF, Guardian As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a pandemic, it is hard to imagine a better guide to the resources of hope than Schalansky's deeply engaging...
**NOW LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021** A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail JOHN SELF,...