Ben Fergusson
Auteur van De lente van Kasper Meier
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- Geboortedatum
- 1980
- Geslacht
- male
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- Ben Fergusson is a writer, editor and translator. Born in Southampton in 1980, he studied English Literature at Warwick University and Modern Languages at Bristol University, and has worked for ten years as an editor and publisher in the art world. His short fiction has appeared in publications in both the UK and the US and has won and been shortlisted for a range of prizes, including the 2010 Bridport Prize. From 2009-2010 he edited the literary journal Chroma and since 2013 has been the editor of the short story magazine Oval Short Fiction. Currently based in London, his first novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier, was written during a four-year period living and working in Berlin. [Hachette]
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An Honest Man door Ben Fergusson
So very dull. I read 14 chapters and gave up. And I enjoy spy stories and am interested in Berlin’s history.
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adrianburke | 3 andere besprekingen | Mar 30, 2020 |
adrianburke | 3 andere besprekingen | Mar 30, 2020 | 
An unusual friendship Kasper Meier is at the centre of this pager turner. The novel is set in Berlin in 1946; you can see, hear and smell the city of rubble, ruin and wretchedness. Kasper is a former gay nightclub owner, now a black marketeer who lives with his ill father.
Kasper's world is upended when Eva Hirsch turns up with a request to find a British pilot. Kasper finds the pilot but also a racket that exemplifies a society in which respect for the law and other people is non existent.
Kasper's growing platonic affection for Eva evolves along with the increasing tension that culminates in an ending I didn't see coming.
This book is the first of three in which the protagonist lives in the same Berlin apartment block. I've read A Handsome Man, which I also highly recommend.… (meer)
Kasper's world is upended when Eva Hirsch turns up with a request to find a British pilot. Kasper finds the pilot but also a racket that exemplifies a society in which respect for the law and other people is non existent.
Kasper's growing platonic affection for Eva evolves along with the increasing tension that culminates in an ending I didn't see coming.
This book is the first of three in which the protagonist lives in the same Berlin apartment block. I've read A Handsome Man, which I also highly recommend.… (meer)
Secrets, social climbing and their hurtful consequences are the theme of Ben Fergusson’s second novel. This character- and descriptive-rich story is set in the early twentieth century in Southwest Africa, then a German colony, and Germany itself.
The novel spans the lives of the eponymous sisters, Margarete and Ingrid, from childhood to their early twenties. It culminates in revolutionary Germany in 1919 when the chaos in the Hoffman family is reflected in the chaos in the country.
The consequences for Germany were irreversible just as they were for Ingrid when she learned the truth her family kept from her. But the people responsible for the misleading and worse elicit sympathy. Their motives were not malicious. The characters are well drawn and the narrative unfolds at a consistent but not fast pace.
Fergusson’s writing is engrossing. This is the third of his three novels I have read and I recommend the others, the first, The Spring of Kasper Meier and the third, A Handsome Man.
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The novel spans the lives of the eponymous sisters, Margarete and Ingrid, from childhood to their early twenties. It culminates in revolutionary Germany in 1919 when the chaos in the Hoffman family is reflected in the chaos in the country.
The consequences for Germany were irreversible just as they were for Ingrid when she learned the truth her family kept from her. But the people responsible for the misleading and worse elicit sympathy. Their motives were not malicious. The characters are well drawn and the narrative unfolds at a consistent but not fast pace.
Fergusson’s writing is engrossing. This is the third of his three novels I have read and I recommend the others, the first, The Spring of Kasper Meier and the third, A Handsome Man.
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- #154,467
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- 3.8
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- 10
- ISBNs
- 18
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- 2