The New York Times Book Review on WE GERMANS by Alexander Starritt

Alexander Starritt's second novel, WE GERMANS, was published in the UK on 6th August 2020 by John Murray Press, and is forthcoming from Little, Brown in the US on 1st September.

Georgia Hunter, writing in The New York Times, describes Starritt's prose as "riveting. It unspools like a roll of film — raw, visceral and propulsive, rich with sensory detail and unsparing in its depictions of cruelty. His account of the war in the East is shockingly gruesome."

She goes on to say that WE GERMANS "feels eerily timely. Meissner’s and Callum’s puzzlements are ours: How do we hold ourselves — and our ancestors — accountable for past wrongs? How do we acknowledge and atone for a nation’s violations? Starritt’s daring work challenges us to lay bare our histories, to seek answers from the past and to be open to perspectives starkly different from our own."

Congratulations, Alex!

 (US cover)