Our choice for October 2011 is The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. From the author of the acclaimed Ablutions, this dazzlingly original novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.
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Our book choice for September 2011 is Alone in Berlin (UK title) by Hans Fallada, translated by Michael Hofmann. It is 1940, France has capitulated, Nazism seems impregnable. Otto Quangel is a dry, withdrawn working man, the foreman at a furniture factory – soon to be turned over to the production of coffins, in response to need.
