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John Micklethwait is the editor of the Economist and Adrian Wooldridge is its Washington bureau chief. They have written four previous books together: The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization, The Witchdoctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus and The Right Nation: Why America is Different.
Nicholas Shakespeare's tender and moving drama of a young man caught between his assured medical career in England and the emotional and political ambivalence of life in Germany parallels the material plenitude of the West and the deprivations of the East during the Cold War. Peter Hithersay discovers on his sixteenth birthday that his father was an East German prisoner with whom his English mother had a brief affair. Eschewing certain success within the British medical fraternity, Peter moves to Berlin after falling in love with an East German woman who subsequently disappears. Against a backdrop of political paranoia and institutionalised fear, his epic search for his lost love and true father begins, calling into question his own sense of identity and belonging at every turn. This is an ambitious and flawed work, attempting as it does to intertwine the complex depths of one man's grief and loss with the terrible, faceless machinations of a society in the grip of political madness. The legacy of the Berlin Wall, played out in human lives, is written subtly into Shakespeare's characters as they try to respond sanely to an insane situation. A memorable tale on the theme of personal and political unification. (Kirkus UK)
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