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What might you expect in a novel such as The Secret Purposes from the talented David Baddiel? Apart from the laddishness of his Fantasy Football TV appearances with Frank Skinner, Baddiel has proved himself to be one of the sharpest and most perceptive of younger novelists, with a sympathetic understanding of human nature (perhaps we can blame Baddiel's TV persona on his co-compere, whose own literary efforts haven’t matched Baddiel's highly accomplished Time for Bed and Whatever Love Means). The earlier books were darkly comic pieces shot through with his trademark seriousness; the new book is a striking departure.
The subject is a hidden part of British history, treated with gravity: the internment of German Jewish refugees on the Isle of Man in the 1940s. June Murray is a translator who doesn’t share the unsympathetic incomprehension of her colleagues at the Ministry of Information, and travels to the Isle of Man in order to interview the Jews interned there. June hopes to expose the true horror of what the Nazis are doing, but her best efforts are wasted, and she can glean nothing. But her relationship with a man she meets, the highly intelligent (if ineffectual) Isaac Fabian, is to have a profound influence on her life and thinking--and nothing will be the same again for June, Isaac or his wife and daughter.
This is clearly a very personal subject for Baddiel, and he produced his most affecting and (in many ways) timely novel yet. Time and place are evoked with quite as much skill as the rich characterisation--June is a heroine to draw the reader ineluctably into the moving narrative.--Barry Forshaw -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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British author Baddiel (Time for Bed) takes a little-known fact of WWII history—the internment of refugees on the Isle of Man—as inspiration for his compelling novel about a German-Jewish couple who escape the Nazis only to be wrenched apart by the British government. Isaac Fabian, who is Jewish; his gentile wife, Lulu; and their baby daughter, Rebekka, arrive safely in Cambridge in 1940. But Isaac's membership in the Communist party draws the attention of the authorities, who deport him to the Isle of Man internment camp. There, imprisonment takes a toll on his health, psyche and marriage. Isaac becomes involved with June Murray, a British translator researching the Jewish plight for the ministry of information, while back in Cambridge Lulu fends off advances from a man who had agreed to write a testimonial letter on Isaac's behalf. Baddiel combines strong characterization with satisfying narrative build, as Isaac plots to help assassinate a Nazi living among the refugees. Despite a too neat epilogue revealing the Fabians' reunion plus Isaac's false claim to June that he escaped Auschwitz, this intelligently written, layered novel should make an inventive addition to Holocaust fiction.
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