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Crime
Ferdinand Von Schirach
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Description for Crime
Paperback. A collection that features such stories as: Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out; Patrick, so entranced by the sight of his sleeping girlfriend that he cuts a small piece out of her back, just to see what she tastes like; and, more. Translator(s): Janeway, Carol Brown. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 312.
Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out.
Meet Patrick, so entranced by the sight of his sleeping girlfriend that he cuts a small piece out of her back, just to see what she tastes like.
Meet the silent assassin who calmly despatches two Neo-Nazi thugs on a railway platform.
A nameless lawyer invites us to read an extraordinary dossier of violent and unspeakable acts. All the crimes have one thing in common: the guilty have never been convicted in a court ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099549277
SKU
V9780099549277
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About Ferdinand Von Schirach
Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964 and is one of Germany's most prominent defence lawyers. Verbrechen (Crime) became an instant bestseller in Germany when it was launched in 2009.
Reviews for Crime
Small literary gems
The Times
Mesmerizing
New York Times
A strange and scary fictionalised casebook
Boyd Tonkin
Independent, Books of the Year
What makes these tales stand out are not the extremes of their protagonists but the narrator's voice: resistant to melodrama, dryly funny...never less than humane. If Crime shows the arbitrary nature ... Read more
The Times
Mesmerizing
New York Times
A strange and scary fictionalised casebook
Boyd Tonkin
Independent, Books of the Year
What makes these tales stand out are not the extremes of their protagonists but the narrator's voice: resistant to melodrama, dryly funny...never less than humane. If Crime shows the arbitrary nature ... Read more