![]() ![]() ![]() Thus one reader thought Robert Harris's novel "a salutary reminder to those who like to pretend that they could never be part of something evil – he shows precisely how it happens".Ĭommenters on the book club website offered their favourite examples of other such alternative histories (more than one quarrelling with my label of "speculative fiction"). After a decent interval (the novel is set in 1964), reasonable people would have started advocating détente with a victorious Nazi state and arguing that "we should draw a line" under the excesses of the past. Here was what the author called "the hard edge" of his book, when he discussed it at the Guardian book club. A tyranny has outlived its years of genocide. ![]() ![]() As one reader asked: "How would we behave in the world described in this book?" This is a world in which nazism has begun reaching an accommodation with the American- dominated free world. H ow would any of us have behaved as citizens of Nazi Germany or of the lands it occupied during the second world war? This question has been put so often as to have become a cliché Fatherland imagines a rather different question. ![]()
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