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'Electrifying... Hughes has Tolstoy's vision and an imaginative reach of his own, combined with an informed, analytical intelligence; the result is historical fiction of rare integrity and distinction.' --Hilary Mantel
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Augusten is a young man from an aristocratic family, struggling to make sense of a world devastated by the Great War. The enemy abroad may have been defeated, but when he finds himself implicated in the death of a young girl, he becomes targeted as the enemy within. Fleeing Britain, Augusten seeks refuge and solace in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives; but what he finds is a hinterland of fierce lust and terrible darkness; a paradigm of the hunger and the hatred that promises to resuscitate a ruined Germany. The Fox in the Attic is both a haunting tale of unrequited love, and a remarkable crystallisation of a singular moment in history. Recording the moment when Germany teetered on the brink of Nazism - the pause before the thunderous fall - Hughes' prose captures both the full weight of inevitability, and the full weight of first love.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an inquiry into the space in human society and psyche that led to the massive world destruction of WWII and the holocaust. Hughes is a genius writer, with deep characterizations of people and places and the threads that bind them together in what is one of the most important books of the last century. Did we learn the lessons of humanity that we needed to learn to avoid repeating it all again? It is sad that the trilogy never got finished, but this is a brilliant look through the eyes of well-written fiction into some of the deepest and darkest of the 20th century.
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An engrossing tale and a fascinating peep into the psyche of a nation. And all skilfully built upon a tiny snippet of history - the failed "Beerhall Putsch" when Hitler was forced to go into hiding.
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Augustine Penry-Herbert had expecetd to die, like his cousin Henry, in the trenches. But he emerges from the collective nightmare of the Great War having inherited the Welsh Estate that would have been Henry's. And, after studying at Oxford, Augustine retires to Wales and leads a hermit's existence, until the death of a small child drives him out again in to the world. He travels to Germany and witnesses the Munich 'Putsch', the beginings of Hitler's rise to power - and the birth of a 'new nation'.
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