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Farthing A Story of a World that Could Have Been
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Tor Books
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
08.08.2006
Verlag
Tor BooksSeitenzahl
320 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
897 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781429944403
An influential family's weekend party is the stage for murder in this alternative history trilogy opener set in a post-WWII England where the Nazis won.
Eight years have passed since the upper-crust "Farthing Set" overthrew Winston Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler. Now those families have gathered for a weekend retreat. Among them is estranged scion Lucy Kahn, who can't understand why she and her husband, David, were so enthusiastically invited. But all becomes clear when the eminent Sir James Thirkie is found murdered-with a yellow Star of David pinned to his chest.
Lucy realizes that her Jewish husband is about to be framed for the crime, an outcome that would be altogether too politically convenient, given the machinations underway in Parliament in the coming week. The Farthing Set are determined to pass laws further restricting the right to vote, and a new outcry against Jews and foreigners would suit them fine.
But whoever's behind the murder and the frame-up didn't count on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being so prone to look beyond the obvious-or his being a man with his own private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts and underdogs...
Praise for
Farthing
"If le Carré scares you, try Jo Walton. Of course her brilliant story of a democracy selling itself out to fascism sixty years ago is just a mystery, just a thriller, just a fantasy-of course we know nothing like that could happen now. Don't we?" -Ursula K. Le Guin
"Walton... crosses genres without missing a beat with this stunningly powerful alternative history set in 1949.... While the whodunit plot is compelling, it's the convincing portrait of a country's incremental slide into fascism that makes this novel a standout. Mainstream readers should be enthralled as well." -
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Eight years have passed since the upper-crust "Farthing Set" overthrew Winston Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler. Now those families have gathered for a weekend retreat. Among them is estranged scion Lucy Kahn, who can't understand why she and her husband, David, were so enthusiastically invited. But all becomes clear when the eminent Sir James Thirkie is found murdered-with a yellow Star of David pinned to his chest.
Lucy realizes that her Jewish husband is about to be framed for the crime, an outcome that would be altogether too politically convenient, given the machinations underway in Parliament in the coming week. The Farthing Set are determined to pass laws further restricting the right to vote, and a new outcry against Jews and foreigners would suit them fine.
But whoever's behind the murder and the frame-up didn't count on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being so prone to look beyond the obvious-or his being a man with his own private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts and underdogs...
Praise for
Farthing
"If le Carré scares you, try Jo Walton. Of course her brilliant story of a democracy selling itself out to fascism sixty years ago is just a mystery, just a thriller, just a fantasy-of course we know nothing like that could happen now. Don't we?" -Ursula K. Le Guin
"Walton... crosses genres without missing a beat with this stunningly powerful alternative history set in 1949.... While the whodunit plot is compelling, it's the convincing portrait of a country's incremental slide into fascism that makes this novel a standout. Mainstream readers should be enthralled as well." -
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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