The Deserters

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness—he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, 2001, aboard a small cruise ship, a scientific conference takes place to pay tribute to renowned East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a committed communist and anti-fascist, and a survivor of the camps at Buchenwald.The tension grows between