Children of Radium

A Buried Inheritance

Joe Dunthorne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2026
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-241-51747-5 (ISBN)

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'The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece' Financial Times

‘A voyage into the heart of twentieth-century darkness [...] narrated with the twists and turns of a detective story’ Observer
Joe Dunthorne never met his great-grandfather Siegfried: an eccentric Jewish scientist who escaped Nazi Berlin in the 1930s and snuck back under cover of night to rescue the family heirlooms. Decades later, Siegfried wrote about his adventures in a memoir so long and rambling that almost no one ever managed to read it. Decades after that, his great-grandson Joe unearthed the dusty manuscript and got a nasty surprise. Because hidden on page 1,692 of the unreadable memoir was a shocking confession...

So begins a gripping journey into the twisting moral maze of the twentieth century – a journey to uncover a radioactive family secret.

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of three novels and one collection of poetry, including Submarine, which has been translated into fifteen languages and made into an acclaimed film directed by Richard Ayoade, and Wild Abandon, which won the 2012 Encore Award. Children of Radium is his first work of non-fiction. He lives in London. www.joedunthorne.com

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.4.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-241-51747-8 / 0241517478
ISBN-13	978-0-241-51747-5 / 9780241517475
Zustand	Neuware