Pleasured

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Perhaps the best novel yet about the collapse of the Berlin Wall, 'at once cinematic, intimate & epic' (The Times)
- from Granta Best of British novelist Philip Hensher, author of the bestselling The Mulberry Empire. ' Pleasured begins on New Year's Eve, 1988, when a car breaks down on a road connecting West Germany & West Berlin. Inside the car are an unlikely trio
- Peter Picker, an Englishman, & the two strangers to whom he is giving a lift, a student who calls herself Daphne & Friedrich Kaiser. The novel tracks their intertwined fates in the year that follows. It is, of course, no ordinary year, & it is not only the Berlin Wall which has collapsed by its end... Distinctive & consistently appealing, Philip Hensher's novels are full of mysteries to be uncovered, lies to collapse, & secrets to be dramatically revealed.' Guardian