Critical Praise

"As he did in Los Alamos, Kanon demonstrates an eerie mastery of the evocative historical detail…. You can feel the shattered glass crunching beneath your feet as you read. You can smell the smoke-scorched broken bricks….Kanon is as ambitious a novelist as he is a gifted one."

——The Washington Post

"A terrific book…[Kanon] writes of moral quandaries that are real and not created to drive a plot…A multilayered story, beautifully told."

——The Boston Globe

"The Good German is thoroughly captivating, a novel that brings to life the ambiguities at the heart of our country's moral legacy. It also offers the promise of a writer who is fast approaching the complexity and relevance not just of John Le Carre and Graham Greene but even of George Orwell."

——The New York Times Book Review

"Gripping…A tale about the untenable choices war entails, and about the moral dangers of demonization. For American readers, the book cuts to the bone, coming at a time when we have become the demonized and are doing our best to avoid becoming the demonizers."

——Newsday