The Have-Nots

Katharina Hacker · 2006 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

A young Berlin couple move to London in the weeks after 11 September 2001 and, in their new rented house, are drawn into the violence they hear in the flat of their neighbours. It won the Deutscher Buchpreis in 2006.

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