To Die in Spring
Ralf Rothmann
Translated by Shaun Whiteside & Shaun Whiteside
13 July 2017Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel.
An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by German author Ralf Rothmann.
Walter Urban and Friedrich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst...
Details
13 July 2017200 pages
9781509812875Imprint: Picador
Reviews
To Die in Spring holds its own against Günter Grass and Erich Maria Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership.Rachel Seiffert, Guardian
A Bosch-like vision of hell... The horror of war and the deep damage it does to people... is not always handled as well, or as powerfully, as this.Sunday Times
A wonderful, precise, very moving novel.Roddy Doyle
A remarkable and memorable book, about the nastiness, fear, dirt and brutality of war . . . Few novels, in any language, have conveyed them better.Caroline Moorehead, Times Literary Supplement
