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Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. Her novel The Blind Side of the Heart won the German Book Prize and sold over a million copies in Germany alone. It was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize, and was named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and US magazine Kirkus Reviews. West is her third novel to be translated into English.
A powerful and often moving novel, bleak and atmospheric -- Mandy Jenkinson * Nudge * Seamlessly translated by Anthea Bell * Independent * Franck's bleak novel excels in the portrayal of the camp's oppressive no-man's-land atmosphere -- Rebecca K. Morrison * The Times Literary Supplement * This is...a powerful novel by an impressive prose stylist and one that throws a spotlight, arrestingly, on a gloomy corner of history -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail * Franck's spare prose evokes an atmosphere of claustrophobic menace. Her unflinching gaze at lives in limbo...is a compelling and resonant read * Independent *
