An Ordinary Youth

Press Reviews

• The Guardianby Alexander Wells · Dec 2023

  The unspoken tensions between banality and evil give this German autobiographical novel, first published in 1971, a powerfully unsettling impact

• The Guardianby Joe Moshenska · Nov 2023

  Published in English for the first time, the German author’s 1971 novelisation of his early life in the 1930s blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary