The Requisitions

<p>Vivid in a way that is almost tangible ... In spite of its grim subject matter <em>The Requisitions</em> is a strangely and luminously hopeful novel. Raina Lipsitz <em>The Metropolitan Review</em></p><p></p><p><strong>When the sirens begin the professor is sitting at the Astoria Café.</strong></p><p></p><p>In this ​​​​​​​historical fiction set in Nazi-occupied Poland a present-day narrator trying to make sense of his past recounts the story of Viktor a disillusioned academic forced into the Łódź Ghetto Elsa a captive Gestapo secretary and her estranged fiancé Carl a troubled policeman whose fixation with the past is pushing him towards unspeakable cruelty.</p><p></p><p>Inspired by Anthony Doerr's <em>All the Light We Cannot See </em>Laurent Binet's <em>HhHH </em>and Salman Rushdie's <em>Midnight's Children The Requisitions </em>is a deeply researched historical metafiction about the difference between history and memory and how to remain human during inhumane times.</p><p></p><p>Original deftly crafted memorable [...] one of those novels that will linger in the mind of the reader longer after the book has been finished and set back upon the shelf. James A. Cox <em>The Midwest Review</em></p>