'A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal... [a] brilliant, fast-moving novel' --The Times
'Assured, vivid and persuasive' --Time Out
'This is a wonderful, vibrant, tense novel about war and its aftermath.' --Susan Hill - Man Booker Prize judge
'Edugyan really can write' --Guardian
'Edugyan has a perfect ear for conversations and the confusions of human love and jealousy. A remarkable novel.' --Morning Star
'Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, and its period slang.' --Independent
'Punchy and atmospheric' --Sunday Times
'Gripping' -- Irish Times
'Nimble storytelling ... Casablanca-style melodrama with healthy doses of quotidian banter, admirably capturing the bickering camaraderie of the young musicians.' -- --International Herald Tribune
"'Simply stunning, one of the freshest pieces of fiction I've read. A story I'd never heard before, told in a way I'd never seen before. I felt the whole time I was reading it like I was being let in on something, the story of a legend deconstructed. It's a world of characters so realized that I found myself at one point looking up Hieronymous Falk on Wikipedia, disbelieving he was the product of one woman's imagination' (Attica Locke)"
'Lyrical and genuinely exciting it s a captivating book that races along with verve and panache' --Daily Express
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011 and the Orange Prize 2012.
From Weimar Berlin to the fall of Paris and on to the present day - a story of friendship and betrayal.