Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25362 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Observer
'[A] devastating tale.'

Daily Mail
'Mixing lush descriptions of the landscape with a very human story of war ... this is a sparkling debut.'

Financial Times
'Engrossing ...convincingly scripted and full of poetry, RESISTANCE remains haunted by the darkest fears and memories.'

Customer Reviews

Very resistable
With such an imaginative premise-Germany winning the second world war, this book should have been more exciting than it was. Robert Harris did a far better job in the similary themed Fatherland, but in Resistance there is endless dreary description of farming duties which don't move the story on. The characters too are rather lacklustre and the lack of tension is very evident.


I bought this book because I heard Chris Smith extolling its virtues on A Good Read on Radio 4. Yes, the book is well written, but it's not tightly plotted. On one page, the German Officer Albrecht asks if he may come into Sarah Lewis's house. It's another 36 lines or so before he gets an answer.
This is the sort of slow motion prose that pervades the book.

Boring and disappointing
I was really disappointed. The book was boring and dragged out. The history aspect of it is not even true. I wish I hadn't bothered finishing this book. The author didn't even get the few German words in the story right. Any translation website would have been able to tell him the correct spelling, but he didn't seem to have bothered. Not great!

what happened next?
really enjoyed it but a bit baffled by the ending - want to know what happened...