Punishment Ferdinand von Schirach

Name: Punishment By Ferdinand von Schirach
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Summary

A chilling, unforgettable collection of crime stories, from one of Germany's most prominent criminal defence lawyers and 'one of the most distinctive voices in European literature' (Daily Telegraph)

Punishment Summary

Punishment: The gripping international bestseller by Ferdinand von Schirach

'Cool, meticulously crafted and mordantly amusing' Irish Times

'A chilling insight into a flawed justice system' Daily Mail

A young lawyer puts aside her sense of justice to succeed at her new firm.

A man who values silence is driven to murder by his noisy neighbours.

A cheated wife seeks revenge.

How do you decide what punishment fits the crime?

Our narrator is a man you'd never want to meet unless you really needed him. A nameless lawyer, he coolly recounts the fates of twelve characters who cross his path, uncovering the loneliness and alienation, desire and desperation which drive their choices and shape the consequences they face.

Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach's eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, each story in Punishment crackles with suspense, masterfully treading the line between fiction and truth.

Punishment Reviews

The stories are cool, meticulously crafted, pithy and mordantly amusing . . . this is an unsettling, affecting, extremely powerful book. Highly recommended -- Declan Hughes * Irish Times *
Translated with economical elegance by Hall . . . and informed by insider knowledge . . . it's a chilling insight into a flawed justice system, the people who work in it and the guilty and guileless who find themselves judged * Daily Mail *
Psychologically raw . . . delivered in a crisp translation by Katharina Hall, his unfussy prose is icily effective . . . it suggests that all justice systems are flawed, that they are all just processes. And, with immense empathy, von Schirach's stories show what happens to people when they are processed. -- Christian House * Financial Times *
An impressive page-turner with substance and bite * Bookmunch *
Thrilling and edgy, often carrying a twist in the tale * To the Ends of the Word blog *

About Ferdinand von Schirach

Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964, and has worked as a defence lawyer for twenty years. He published his first book at the age of 45 and has since published various short stories, novels, essays and plays. Ferdinand von Schirach's books have been translated into more than 40 languages, and have sold millions of copies worldwide. He lives in Berlin.

Additional information

Sku

GOR013743019

ISBN 13

9781529345698

ISBN 10

1529345693

Title

Punishment: The gripping international bestseller by Ferdinand von Schirach

Author

Ferdinand von Schirach

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

John Murray Press

Year published

2023-04-27

Number of pages

224

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

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Note

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