Arbuthnot Books

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Palace of Tears

Cambridge & Berlin, 1975 — love in East Berlin & drama at The Festivl.

Cambridge & Berlin · 1975 Espionage · Literary Identity · Betrayal · Desire

A Cold War novel set across Cambridge and Berlin in 1975: archives, doubleness, and the gap between what is said and what is meant.