Felix Hoffman's hunger is both physical and emotional. A Dutch diplomat with a checkered career behind him, he is now Ambassador in Prague in the late 1980s; his final posting. In Kafka's haunted city, Hoffman desperately feeds his bulimia and spends his insomniac nights studying Spinoza and revisiting the traumas of his past. A child survivor of the Holocaust, Hoffman married and had beloved twin daughters, but a double tragedy has befallen his family; one daughter died as a young girl of leukemia, the other, who became a heroin addict, has committed suicide. This has wrecked Hoffman's marriage and his life; he has not had one decent night's sleep since the death of his daughter over twenty years ago, and his constant physical hunger reflects his emotional hunger for truth and understanding. When Carla, a Czech double agent, gets into Hoffman's bed, political and emotional mayhem ensues. Hoffman's past and his present predicament are inextricably bound up with the tormented history of Europe over the fifty years since the Second World War. Like Europe, he is at a crossroads, and the signs point to an uncertain future. With this spellbinding philosophical thriller, a bestseller in Germany, Leon de Winter charts a search for identity which is both personal and political.

Hoffman's hunger

Léon de Winter

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Der Himmel von Hollywood.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Diogenes-Verlag

Sokolows Universum.

Contemporary

Place De La Bastille

Diogenes

De hemel van Hollywood

Wolters-Noordhoff

God's Gym

Thrillers & Suspense

De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam

De hemel van Hollywood: Roman

De Bezige Bij

Alle verhalen

RAINBOW POCKETBOEKEN

Het lied van Europa

Hollands Diep

De Tien Geboden: Nieuwe verhalen (Dutch Edition)

Dirk Van Weelden

Tom Lanoye

Bas Heijne

Martin Bril

Wanda Reisel

Henk Propper

Willem Melchior

Joost Zwagerman

Kristien Hemmerechts

Prometheus

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