After reading few books from Philip Kerr's detective Gunther's series it was quite easy to transition to Robert Harris' "Fatherland".
This is a serious book. Though it is set in an alternative universe where Nazi Germany dominates half of the Europe following WWII and competes with USA, almost all the major events described in this novel are historically correct in a sense that it describes how people in Nazi Germany and then in Soviet Union lived and interacted with outside world. The author simply combined two actual totalitarian regimes into hypothetical victorious Nazi Germany.
We erroneously think that either Nazi Germany or Soviet Union were monolithic states when citizens were fully committed to its respective ideologies. In reality, however, vast majority of people in both states were lived in a state of fear and indifference, actively avoiding knowledge of what's been happening around them. But what if citizens become aware of real facts? How they will react to real facts individually or as a nation? This novel shows result of such awakening when one person is capable of altering the fate of the nation.
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