The (Reprehensible) Finkler Question - Howard Joco.He’s just about the most sympathetic Nazi character you could meet, which makes his worldview all the more disturbing. Despite being placed in charge of finding Muncaster, Gunther feels old and washed up due to a broken marriage and the rigors of the Nazi mission to dominate Europe. read I Second hand books online I Novels in English I Fiction books I Book reviews I. Also the fact that Nazi manhunter, Gunther Hoth, is given a convincing back story and is portrayed as a flawed and sensitive human gives the novel an unexpectedly powerful dimension. Sansom at Online bookstore bookzoo.in I books.
In this context the significance of Frank Muncaster’s horrific treatment by a gang of school bullies during his vivid backstory is all too clear. The chilling scenes in which British Jews are rounded up and marched through the streets of towns are brilliantly written and serve as a timely reminder that extreme intolerance is not just a Nazi phenomenon. Sansom places familiar holocaust horrors in unfamiliar settings, giving the reader a much needed historical jolt. Sansom has long been one of my favorite writers, but DOMINION may be his most richly imagined book yet: it's a wonderful example of what the novel can do-a through-the-looking-glass glimpse into a world that might have been, and almost was.'Kate Atkinson, New York Times bestselling author of Life After Life 'Dominion is terrific. This elevates what is essentially a popular fiction thriller into an important novel. Hard on his heels is Gestapo agent Gunther Hoth, a brilliant, implacable hunter of men, who soon has Frank and David's innocent wife, Sarah, directly in his sights.Dominion succeeds in part because Sansom deftly reveals the dark heart of humanity by exploring just how humans can be persuaded to perpetrate heinous acts. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance and University friend of Frank's, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule-the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.īut Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. C J Sansoms Dominion takes the reader back no further than an imagined May 1940 to postulate Britain after Hitler has won the war. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany.
SANSOM REWRITES HISTORY IN A THRILLING NOVEL THAT DARES TO IMAGINE BRITAIN UNDER THE THUMB OF NAZI GERMANY.ġ952.
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