Book of Kings

by James Thackara

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Pub Date Aug 01 2020 | Archive Date Aug 01 2020

Lume Books

Historical Fiction

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Description

While Europe drifts toward Nazism, four students share an apartment on the Rue de Fleurus.

Set across Europe, America and North Africa in the years shortly before World War II and spanning to the present day, The Book of Kings brilliantly forges the stories of these four men whose lives mirror the large picture of events around the world.

In scenes ranging from the fall of France, the Moscow front, Silesia’s camps, the siege of Berlin and the Amazon rainforests, this epic historical fiction novel pursues the enduring questions of absolute evil and man's responsibility.

While Europe drifts toward Nazism, four students share an apartment on the Rue de Fleurus.

Set across Europe, America and North Africa in the years shortly before World War II and spanning to the...

A Note From the Publisher

JAMES THACKARA was born in Los Angeles in 1944 to parents descended from a Zürich cotton merchant in Shanghai and General William Tecumseh Sherman. He was educated in Buenos Aires, Provence, California, Rome, Switzerland, and New England, graduating from Harvard in 1967, where he studied under Peter Taylor, Fredric Jameson, and Joseph Frank. Since then, he has lived in London. He is the author of two other novels, America’s Children and Ahab’s Daughter.

JAMES THACKARA was born in Los Angeles in 1944 to parents descended from a Zürich cotton merchant in Shanghai and General William Tecumseh Sherman. He was educated in Buenos Aires, Provence...

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A Note From the Publisher

JAMES THACKARA was born in Los Angeles in 1944 to parents descended from a Zürich cotton merchant in Shanghai and General William Tecumseh Sherman. He was educated in Buenos Aires, Provence, California, Rome, Switzerland, and New England, graduating from Harvard in 1967, where he studied under Peter Taylor, Fredric Jameson, and Joseph Frank. Since then, he has lived in London. He is the author of two other novels, America’s Children and Ahab’s Daughter.

Advance Praise

“Absorbing… when you encounter one of the huge set-pieces that punctuate the action you are rocked on your heels… It’s hard to recall anywhere, outside the pages of Tolstoy…that the unholy new dawn of total warfare is so confidently evoked.”

—JOHN WALSH, THE NEW YORKER