Guilt
On sale
27th April 2023
Price: £10.99
‘Devastating and fascinating’ New York Times
‘Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose’ Observer
A group of respectable family men are charged with the brutal murder of a teenager.
A promising student gets caught up in a sadistic schoolboy gang.
A couple are bound together by the events of one bloody night.
Where do you draw the line between good and evil?
In Guilt, people commit violent, extraordinary acts; some are convicted in a court of law, others are not. But our narrator, a nameless lawyer, knows that this is never the whole story.
Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach’s eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, the stories in Guilt blur fiction and truth, compelling us to question the difference between guilt and justice, innocence and complicity.
‘Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose’ Observer
A group of respectable family men are charged with the brutal murder of a teenager.
A promising student gets caught up in a sadistic schoolboy gang.
A couple are bound together by the events of one bloody night.
Where do you draw the line between good and evil?
In Guilt, people commit violent, extraordinary acts; some are convicted in a court of law, others are not. But our narrator, a nameless lawyer, knows that this is never the whole story.
Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach’s eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, the stories in Guilt blur fiction and truth, compelling us to question the difference between guilt and justice, innocence and complicity.
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Reviews
The stories are cool, meticulously crafted, pithy and mordantly amusing . . . this is an unsettling, affecting, extremely powerful book. Highly recommended
An impressive page-turner with substance and bite
Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose
Tantalising and disturbing in equal measure
Psychologically raw . . . delivered in a crisp translation by Katharina Hall, his unfussy prose is icily effective . . . it suggests that all justice systems are flawed, that they are all just processes. And, with immense empathy, von Schirach's stories show what happens to people when they are processed.
A magnificent storyteller
Praise for Ferdinand von Schirach
An exceptional prose stylist
Thrilling and edgy, often carrying a twist in the tale
