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Rosa
Jonathan Rabb
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Description for Rosa
Paperback. Rosa, reprinted with a revised cover, is the author's third novel after The Overseer and The Book of Q and is the first in the Berlin Trilogy. Shadow and Light was the second and The Second Son the third. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 470.
In November 1918, socialist revolution sweeps across Germany, transforming Berlin, already ravaged by war, into a political battleground. Four women from the slums are discovered dead, all with identical markings on their back. When the fifth turns out to be Rosa Luxemburg, a leader of the suppressed socialist uprising, the political police complicate the investigations of Detective Inspector Nicolai Hoffner and his assistant Hans Fichte.
Rabb brings to life a world capital on the brink of chaos, a tragic revolutionary who inspired and enraged in equal measure, and a compellingly complex, world-weary, deeply flawed but brilliant inspector, Nikolai ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905559046
SKU
V9781905559046
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About Jonathan Rabb
Jonathan Rabb, is a full-time novelist and lives in Savannah, Georgia, with his wife and their two children. Rosa is the first part of Jonathan Rabb's Berlin Trilogy, which also includes Shadow and Light and The Second Son.
Reviews for Rosa
"...a novel so richly drawn, so dark and so compelling it reaches into your gut and holds on tight..." Detroit Free Press "a ghostly noir that could have been conspired at by Raymond Chandler and Andre Malraux." Harper's "Rabb wields a deft and chilling pen." Richmond Times Dispatch "The hallmarks of Jonathan Rabb's writing are impeccable research, extraordinary attention to ... Read more