Unity by Michael Arditti

Unity by Michael Arditti

The story of a lost film about the relationship between Adolf Hitler and the English aristocrat Unity Mitford

A wonderful novel, written with exceptional knowledge and understanding of past and present Germany -- Gitta Sereny
The most intriguing and thought-provoking novel I have read this year * Daily Express *
Highly intelligent. . well worth reading * Sunday Times *
Farce and intensity blend in a deftly layered version of Hitler's legacy . . . Michael Arditti ambitiously tackles the theme of human evil in the history of Europe over the past seventy years. He does so with a touch both curiously light and unambiguously earnest * Guardian *
Strikingly original in form . . . a remarkable, unsettling book . . . a compelling fiction * The Times *
What is astonishing in Unity is the grim wit and ironic humour which pervades this deadly serious page-turner . . . the reader staggers away from this uncompromising drama of ideas shaken and stirred * Independent *
Chilling in the extremity of its import . . . hugely ambitious in its scope, Arditti's novel examines the events and personalities that shape moral character * Financial Times *
Remarkable . . . a strange and engrossing story that has powerful resonances with our own era * Daily Mail *
The purpose . . . is to understand the human appetite for gratuitous cruelty . . . the final section . . . debates this with a Dostoevskian intentness. The author's love for his creations [is] the only possible antidote to the loveless anti-human behaviour that Unity has been courageous enough to confront * Times Literary Supplement *
This is a deftly written, deeply intelligent and wholly admirable book, full of good ideas and sharp historical sidelights * Literary Review *

Michael Arditti is a novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents (Pagan's Father in the USA) (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006), The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011), The Breath of Night (2013), Widows and Orphans (2016), Of Men and Angels (2018) and The Anointed (2020). His short story collection, Good Clean Fun, was published in 2004. He was awarded a Harold Hyam Wingate scholarship in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund fellowship in 2001, an Oppenheim-John Downes memorial award in 2003 and Arts Council awards in 2004 and 2007. He was the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud museum in 2008. His novels have been short- and long-listed for several literary awards and Easter won the inaugural Waterstone's Mardi Gras award. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Chester.

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ISBN 13	9781904559122
ISBN 10	1904559123
Title	Unity
Author	Michael Arditti
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2005-05-01
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.