Robert Harris is the author of Pompeii, Enigma, and Fatherland. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. His novels have sold more than ten million copies and been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and four children/5(2K). · T he art of speculative fiction is the pursuit of small but ramifying differences. Robert Harris's Fatherland is not the first work of fiction to imagine the Germans as victors in Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Fatherland is also a historical novel, set in The twist is that Harris has imagined an alternative history, in which Hitler defeated the Soviet Union (and Britain) and now, an aged recluse Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
"Fatherland," published in the same year, provides a much more nuanced look at how history might have evolved if a few events had gone differently. Indeed, in Robert Harris's hands, it's a crackerjack of a novel that meets the needs of genre fiction, yet also teaches a lesson from the past, perhaps the most important lesson of the last. Fatherland is a noir detective novel set in an alternate in which Germany won the 2nd World War. Harris fleshes out this alternate world in a convincing and chilling way, giving the reader clues as to why Germany might have won the war. Robert Harris has 46 books on Goodreads with ratings. Robert Harris's most popular book is Fatherland.
Robert Harris is the author of eleven novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost Writer, Conspirata, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, Dictator, and Conclave. Several of his books have been adapted to film, most recently The Ghost Writer. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. Fatherland by Robert Harris: Book Review. Fatherland, written by Robert Harris and published in , is set in a world where Nazi Germany won the Second World War. By the nineteen sixties, Germany dominates the whole of Europe. However, Hitler is nearing his seventy-fifth birthday and has made no public appearances for months. English. FATHERLAND. Hitler has won the war and the totalitarian Nazi regime in Germany has a terrible secret it needs to hide at all costs. Anton Lesser stars as Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Berlin Kriminalpolizei called to investigate a suspicious death.
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