The Element of Water - Softcover

Davies, Stevie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070434730X ISBN 13: 9780704347304

Publisher: Women's Press, Limited, The, 2002

Synopsis

In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However, as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, Dahl and Quantz can no longer reconcile their childhood friendship as one becomes an SS officer and the other a pawn in the intelligence unit. Thirteen years later, their children meet: a woman and a man exposed to the sins of their fathers.

About this title

About the Author:

Stevie Davies's previous books include Impassioned Clay and Unbridled Spirits. She has won the Fawcett Book Prize, been long-listed for the Booker Prize and been shortlisted twice for the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Prize and the Portico Prize. She is a respected historian and literary critic who reviews regularly for the Independent, holds an honorary appointment as Senior Lecturer at Roehampton Institute and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives near Manchester.

Review:

'Resonating with poignant imagery, this outstanding novel examines the best and worst of human nature' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Women's Press, Limited, The
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 070434730X
• ISBN 13: 9780704347304
• Binding: Paperback