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Born in 1945, Hédi Kaddour has a Doctorate in Modern Literature. He has been teaching French literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure since 1984. He is the author of three collections of poetry and of several translations (from German, English and Arabic). Waltenberg is his first novel.Kaddour's idiosyncratic prose, which plays fast and loose with grammatical convention, is as creative as a black market passport. The result is a long read (at 640 pages) but one that still manages to grip like an ill-gotten dossier
Spectator
A great novel... Excellent, complex
Guardian
A bumper espionage thriller between World War I and the Berlin Wall's collapse featuring a German author, an American singer and a French journalist
The List
Part spy-thriller, part novel of ideas, Hédi Kaddour's huge, ambitious novel takes on the history of the 20th century, from the First World War to 1991... it is an extraordinary novel. Imagine <i>Smiley's People</i> rewritten by Thomas Mann, and then updated by WG Sebald (a "Colonel Sebald" pops up a couple of times). There are pages, sometimes even chapters, which are as good as anything written in years
Jewish Chronicle
<p>At last here is the great French novel we have been waiting twenty years for</p>
Marie Claire
A virtuoso epic novelist
Nouvel Observateur
Magnificent <i>Waltenberg</i>. So vast and so ambitious
Sud Ouest