German novel tackles British explorer
The novel recreates the life of Sir Richard Burton, the Victorian explorer and translator. Neil Belton at Faber described it as “a tale of adventure, danger and discovery, written with enormous verve and narrative drive”. Faber, which will copublish with Ecco in the US, bought the novel from Hanser
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