![]() ![]() ![]() After a decent interval (the novel is set in 1964), reasonable people would have started advocating détente with a victorious Nazi state and arguing that "we should draw a line" under the excesses of the past. Here was what the author called "the hard edge" of his book, when he discussed it at the Guardian book club. A tyranny has outlived its years of genocide. As one reader asked: "How would we behave in the world described in this book?" This is a world in which nazism has begun reaching an accommodation with the American- dominated free world. ![]() H ow would any of us have behaved as citizens of Nazi Germany or of the lands it occupied during the second world war? This question has been put so often as to have become a cliché Fatherland imagines a rather different question. ![]()
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