Paul Pickering
Lucy
Lucy
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Pickering’s extraordinary wartime novel traces the violent exploits of Operation Lucy – centred on the mysterious ‘Hyman Kaplan’.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 15 July 2024
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Paul Pickering’s new anti-war novel Lucy is about obedience and rebellion, how one survivor in the actual and moral wasteland of immediate post-war Berlin takes over the lives of three others, psychologically and sexually, in the way Hitler took over a country.
The worldwide protests surrounding the 2024 conflict in Gaza mirror the rebel spirit at the heart of Pickering’s important, groundbreaking novel. Set partly in a German kibbutz, started by Nazis to remove Jews, there is a clash between utopian ideas and the toxic nationalism necessary to found the state of Israel. Operation Lucy, once an idealistic, anti-Nazi espionage ring, of which all the main characters are part, has become a self-devouring monster.
Lucy is darkly comic, showing how best intentions, when they pass through the looking-glass of human failings, change to the opposite. Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” means no escape because of contradictory rules, “Lucy” is the Lucifer paradox, where the only good is bad, and only bad is good.
A thrilling, disturbing and utterly compelling read from one of the UK’s most celebrated authors.
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784633240
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