Chasing the King of Hearts
'A spare, startling tale of love and survival.' Justine Jordan, Guardian - 'This strange unsettling novel ... is a remarkable find... The style is bluntly simple, like the affectless telling of a fable. The reader is held at a distance by a tone that is so studiedly neutral as to be almost jaunty, yet because it is relating the most appalling atrocities it becomes the more affecting.' David Mills, Sunday Times - 'Krall has created an elegant, nuanced book about choice, consequences, identity and guilt... We have come slowly to the Central European and Germans - Hans Fallada, Joseph Roth, Ryszard Kapuscinski, all originally journalists like Krall - and we have missed so much.' Roger Boyes, Times - 'An arresting style that rises in remarkable fashion to the challenge such a history poses to any narrator, combining steely lyricism with a thriller's tension.' Marek Kohn, Independent - 'Chasing the King of Hearts is not only a love story and a Holocaust novel. Its deep and intimate inquiry is the mystery of personality  -  in other words, spiritual survival in a fateless universe... You now have in your hands a masterpiece.' Kapka Kassabova, Guardian