Praise for Catherine Chidgey

“Chidgey is a find.”—Times Literary Supplement

“A writer of formidable resources, a deft stylist possessed of uncanny imaginative acuity.”—The Guardian

Praise for Remote Sympathy

“Highly original and deeply researched, Catherine Chidgey’s Remote Sympathy is a powerful and disturbing study in terrible lies and the human need to believe them... Few readers will close the covers of this book unshaken.”―Annie Proulx, author of Barkskins

★ “With its multiple registers and complex view of humanity, Remote Sympathy marks a vital turn in Holocaust literature.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Catherine Chidgey’s second novel to be set in Nazi Germany is about how much people are able to overlook—and in doing so, perpetuate evil [ . . . ] surely one of the scariest books of the year.”—Elena Nicolaou, O, The Oprah Magazine, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of 2021

“‘Simply being’ is a major achievement for two of the three central characters in Catherine Chidgey’s powerful new novel, which is set on both sides of the barbed wire barriers at Buchenwald.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A well-researched addition [to] Holocaust fiction.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Immersive, profound, and beautifully plotted.”―The Guardian

“Are there new ways to tell stories of the Holocaust that are neither crass nor exploitative? In this moving and unusual novel, the New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey shows that there are. Her novel is a fine achievement.”—The Sunday Times, Best Historical Fiction of the Month

“An insightful account of human nature set against the chaos of war. It is a moving examination of the human condition and well worth serious attention.”—Historical Novels Society

“The writing is beautifully wrought and the research a result of years of study. The novelist illustrates the senseless cruelty of the regime and portrays its characters convincingly, not as monsters but deluded, indulged and frightened victims of their own stupidity.”—The Jewish Chronicle

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