{"product_id":"the-undertaking-paperback","title":"The Undertaking - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAudrey Magee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Impressive. Magee's terse style, cross-cutting between the narratives of Katharina and Peter, generates its own tension and momentum.\"--New York Times Book Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Bare, brutal...told with a sharply focused simplicity that both exposes and condemns through its understatement.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLauded by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling writer Chris Cleave as \"outstanding\" and finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Undertaking\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable debut novel from enticing new voice in fiction, Audrey Magee. Set during World War II amid the trenches of the Eastern front and the turmoil of Berlin under the Third Reich, \u003ci\u003eThe Undertaking\u003c\/i\u003e follows the lives of an ordinary German soldier Peter Faber, as he approaches Stalingrad, and his new wife, Katharina Spinell, who, goaded on by her delusional parents, ruthlessly works her way into Nazi high society with tragic consequences. This is an unforgettable and elegant novel of marriage, ambition, and the brutality of war from one of our finest new writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is a devastating but quite stunning first novel.\"--\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A bold, honest novel about Nazi greed and moral blankness...Magee's cool, precise tone recalls Hans Fallada's \u003ci\u003eAlone in Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e, and, like Heinrich B ll, Magee is haunted by the everyday and the small people who are inseparably part of a great ravagement.\"--Helen Dunmore, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudrey Magee\u003c\/b\u003e worked for twelve years as a journalist and has written for, among others, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. She studied German and French at University College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University. She lives in Wicklow with her husband and three daughters. \u003ci\u003eThe Undertaking\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693971968063,"sku":"9780802124159","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c5335caa648dffc77841e6ba3dfb4423.webp?v=1765000574","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-undertaking-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}