Farthing
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780765314215 (0765314215)
Publish date: August 8th 2006
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 319
Edition language: English
Series: Small Change (#1)
Jo Walton’s novel opens with a typical mystery – a murder at an English country house – in a most atypical world. It is one in which the British did not defeat the Nazis, but sued for peace on the even of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Eight years after the “Farthing Peace”, the appeaser...
Deftly blended, this combination of an alternate world history with an English country house mystery opens in 1949, but it’s not exactly the 1949 or England we know. Eight years earlier a group of conservative, anti-semitic politicians known as the “Farthing set” made peace with Nazi Germany, securi...
This was a very odd book. I enjoyed most of it, but it was very odd. It took a bit of mental calisthenics to adapt to a 1949 London in which "Old Adolph admired England and had no territorial ambitions across the channel". Because this world's Old Adolph most certainly had all sorts of ambitions acr...
I loved this book! It's brilliant, it's delicious, it's thought-provoking, it's fun, it's sad and it feels like an old friend has come to stay for the weekend. You think you're getting a cozy mystery set in an alternate history, but in reality, you're getting much much more. I knew of the author...
bookshelves: published-2006, paper-read, one-penny-wonder, series, spring-2015, alternative-history, anti-semitic, britain-england, first-in-series, hampshire, mystery-thriller, historical-masturbation, nazi-related, fascism, foxtrotted-uniform, games-people-play Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Susan...
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