Hugo Hamilton was born in Dublin, Ireland of joint Irish and German parentage. Hugo Hamilton has travelled extensively in Europe and his first three novels, 'Surrogate City', The Last Shot and The Love Test are based in Central Europe.
Book Review:Two Germans, Bertha Sommer and Officer Franz are attempting to escape the war and the inevitable aftermath. In contemporary Germany, there is an American whose sole purpose is to find out where the last shot was fired in WW2. Their stories intermingle.
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Book Review:Mathias becomes involved with a former East German prisoner, Christa. The more he finds out about Christa, the more his own marriage dilapidates.Mathias has to find some way out of the cycle, but he finds it impossible.