Children of Radium

A Buried Inheritance

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Beschreibung

<p><b>A gripping journey into the twisting moral maze of the twentieth century - a journey to uncover a radioactive family secret</b></p><p>'The best book I've read in the past year . . . A masterpiece' <i>Financial Times</i></p><p>Joe Dunthorne never met his great-grandfather Siegfried: an eccentric Jewish scientist who escaped Nazi Berlin in the 1930s and snuck back under cover of night to rescue the family heirlooms. Decades later, Siegfried wrote about his adventures in a memoir so long and rambling that almost no one ever managed to read it. Decades after <i>that</i>, his great-grandson Joe unearthed the dusty manuscript and got a nasty surprise. Because hidden on page 1,692 of the unreadable memoir was a shocking confession . . .</p><p><b>'A voyage into the heart of twentieth-century darkness [...] narrated with the twists and turns of a detective story' <i>Observer</i></b></p><p>SHORTLISTED FOR WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE TLS ACKERLEY PRIZE 2026</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241517475

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 127 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)