JOSEPH KANON is the author of four novels, including "Los Alamos"," ""The Prodigal Spy, "and "Alibi." Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a book publishing executive. He lives in New York City.
"Joesph Kanon...has woven his plot seamlessly into the historical
background. As the hunt for the missing scientist gathers speed,
the moral and emotional dimensions of the story become more
complex. The mystery takes on the weight of the deepest questions
of right and wrong as the novel's action moves through a ravaged
Berlin so exactly depicted that one feels Kanon must have traveled
in time to witness this landscape himself...In its articulation of
a personal experience of the war and its aftermath, and in the
plain power of its prose, "The Good German" rivals Irwin Shaw's
novel "The Young Lions," its history imaginatively accessible, its
plot historically inevitable. A novel that brings to life the
ambiguities at the heart of our country's morallegacy.Provocative,
fully realized fiction that explores, as only fiction can, the
reality of history as it is lived by individual men and women."
"-The New York Times"
" "
"Kanon is the heir apparent to Graham Greene and early-and
mid-passage le Carre, for he writes of moral quandaries that are
real and not created to drive a plot."--Robin W. Winks, "The
""Boston"" Globe"
"Joesph Kanon has woven his plot seamlessly into the historical
background. As the hunt for the missing scientist gathers speed,
the moral and emotional dimensions of the story become more
complex. The mystery takes on the weight of the deepest questions
of right and wrong as the novel's action moves through a ravaged
Berlin so exactly depicted that one feels Kanon must have traveled
in time to witness this landscape himself In its articulation of a
personal experience of the war and its aftermath, and in the plain
power of its prose, "The Good German" rivals Irwin Shaw's novel
"The Young Lions", its history imaginatively accessible, its plot
historically inevitable. A novel that brings to life the
ambiguities at the heart of our country's morallegacy.Provocative,
fully realized fiction that explores, as only fiction can, the
reality of history as it is lived by individual men and women."
"-The New York Times"
" "
"Kanon is the heir apparent to Graham Greene and early-and
mid-passage le Carre, for he writes of moral quandaries that are
real and not created to drive a plot."--Robin W. Winks, "The
""Boston"" Globe""
" Joesph Kanon... has woven his plot seamlessly into the historical
background. As the hunt for the missing scientist gathers speed,
the moral and emotional dimensions of the story become more
complex. The mystery takes on the weight of the deepest questions
of right and wrong as the novel's action moves through a ravaged
Berlin so exactly depicted that one feels Kanon must have traveled
in time to witness this landscape himself... In its articulation of
a personal experience of the war and its aftermath, and in the
plain power of its prose, "The Good German" rivals Irwin Shaw's
novel "The Young Lions," its history imaginatively accessible, its
plot historically inevitable. A novel that brings to life the
ambiguities at the heart of our country's moral legacy.
Provocative, fully realized fiction that explores, as only fiction
can, the reality of history as it is lived by individual men and
women." "- The New York Times"
" "
" Kanon is the heir apparent to Graham Greene and early-and
mid-passage le Carre, for he writes of moral quandaries that are
real and not created to drive a plot." -- Robin W. Winks, "The
""Boston"" Globe"
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