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Punishment: The gripping international bestseller

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Description for Punishment: The gripping international bestseller Paperback.

'Cool, meticulously crafted and mordantly amusing' Irish Times

'A chilling insight into a flawed justice system' Daily Mail

A young lawyer puts aside her sense of justice to succeed at her new firm.

A man who values silence is driven to murder by his noisy neighbours.

A cheated wife seeks revenge.

How do you decide what punishment fits the crime?

Our narrator is a man you'd never want to meet unless you really needed him. A nameless lawyer, he coolly recounts the fates of twelve characters who cross his path, uncovering the loneliness and alienation, desire and desperation which drive their choices and shape the consequences they face.

Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach's eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, each story in Punishment crackles with suspense, masterfully treading the line between fiction and truth.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
John Murray Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529345698
SKU
9781529345698
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Ferdinand Von Schirach
Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964, and has worked as a defence lawyer for twenty years. He published his first book at the age of 45 and has since published various short stories, novels, essays and plays. Ferdinand von Schirach's books have been translated into more than 40 languages, and have sold millions of copies worldwide. He lives in Berlin.

Reviews for Punishment: The gripping international bestseller
The stories are cool, meticulously crafted, pithy and mordantly amusing . . . this is an unsettling, affecting, extremely powerful book. Highly recommended
Declan Hughes
Irish Times
Translated with economical elegance by Hall . . . and informed by insider knowledge . . . it's a chilling insight into a flawed justice system, the people who work in it and the guilty and guileless who find themselves judged
Daily Mail
Psychologically raw . . . delivered in a crisp translation by Katharina Hall, his unfussy prose is icily effective . . . it suggests that all justice systems are flawed, that they are all just processes. And, with immense empathy, von Schirach's stories show what happens to people when they are processed.
Christian House
Financial Times
An impressive page-turner with substance and bite
Bookmunch
Thrilling and edgy, often carrying a twist in the tale
To the Ends of the Word blog

Goodreads reviews for Punishment: The gripping international bestseller


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