Hans Koning (born Hans Koningsberger in Amsterdam), was a sergeant in the British Army during World War II. In 1951 he came to the United States from Indonesia. He reported for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, The Nation and The Atlantic Monthly, and his many books have received much critical praise. NewSouth Books considers it an important literary event to put his considerable fiction output, twelve novels, back in print.

• "Koning is that rare combination - a masterful story teller with a sense of history" - Howard Zinn
• "One of America's most accomplished writers" - George Plimpton
• "His style works like dry ice on the mind." - Newsweek
• "Extraordinarily stirring" - The New Yorker
• "One of the most beautiful (novels) I have read for a long time" - Keith Waterhouse in the New Statesman
• "There has always been something recognizably distinct in Hans Koning's novels: a ruthless spareness in the manner, a kind of passionate desperation in the plot" - Alastair Reid

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