· Shadow and Light: A Novel by Jonathan Rabb Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. CLR [rating] Zero-Sum Game. A man is found dead in a bathtub, brandy is poured and the whodunit game grows darker with every turn. Throw in a gritty Berlin, a major film studio and a chief inspector who never misses a beat and the pages practically turn themselves. · But Jonathan Rabb's "Shadow and Light" beats the odds as Rabb details an atmospheric and complex mystery that is set, paradoxically, in the early days of film. Like the superb "Rosa" that proceeded it, "Shadow and Light" is intricately plotted and meticulously researched; top-notch historical fiction on par with Alan Furst/5(76). · Rumors of films with sound threaten to change the industry. Without sound, all you have is shadow and light, an inventor tells Hoffner. With sound, movies can do a lot more than entertain, as soon to be shown by Nazi propaganda films and newsreels. Rabb s meticulous research brings to life a corrupt society vulnerable to extremism/5(80).
Jonathan Rabb does it again: an exciting, dense plot set within the darkness of s Weimar Germany. If anyone wants to know what a "noir" book is, "Shadow and Light" can be a prime example. If Germany were about to descend into the abyss, Rabb's characters and scenario were ahead of their time. Read "Shadow and Light A Novel" by Jonathan Rabb available from Rakuten Kobo. Berlin, When a studio executive at Ufa -- the home of German Cinema -- is found dead in his office bathtub, Herr K. Buy Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Shadow and Light () takes place in , when an executive at the newly-famous Ufa film studios is found dead. The Second Son () is set later, before the Olympics, and continues the story Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner's life as his family's fortunes come up against the Nazi regime. Awards and Honours. Rumors of films with sound threaten to change the industry. Without sound, all you have is shadow and light, an inventor tells Hoffner. With sound, movies can do a lot more than entertain, as soon to be shown by Nazi propaganda films and newsreels. Rabb s meticulous research brings to life a corrupt society vulnerable to extremism. Shadow and Light is the second in Rabb's Berlin trilogy. The first, Rosa,was set in in the politically turbulent Berlin following the German surrender in the First World War. The author mixes real people with fictional and the policeman Hoffner is the leading character in both novels.
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