Plots don’t stop
Leo Robson: ‘The World and All That It Holds’, 13 April 2023
The World and All That It Holds
by Aleksandar Hemon.
Picador, 336 pp., £18.99, February,978 0 330 51332 6 Show More
by Aleksandar Hemon.
Picador, 336 pp., £18.99, February,
“... a different – more dramatic – version of Wasserstein’s Secret War in Shanghai. Hemon plays fairer here, using Bailey’s book Mission to Tashkent as the blueprint for Moser-Ethering’s ‘many memoirs’, beginning with Sparking the Fire, which we are told is the only written record of Osman’s existence. Bailey’s account mentions a spy called ... ”