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Set at the end of World War Two, featuring a large cast of characters, this novel centers on the design and production of the German V-2 rockets. What is the "black device" that is rumored to be placed in a very special rocket? Where is it going?
This award-winning novel is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and...
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The Nazi past becomes ominously present as a man sets out to find a gay man swept away decades earlier in Germany's lethal purges. The story ranges from the vivid Berlin of 1935 to a postwar Germany where past evils retain a powerful hold on the present. The story is driven by secrets that, once discovered, reveal the story of gay men in Nazi history