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A hefty novel of more than 600 pages, it takes its invasion scenario seriously well, at least some of the time. From the fatherland with love by ryu murakami, ralph. Set in 1964 berlin, all the novels characters are sharply drawn and passionately motivated in decidedly political directions. From the fatherland, with love by ryu murakami the. From the fatherland, with love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in. Fatherland is a 1994 tv film written by stanley weiser and ron hutchinson and directed by christopher menaul as an adaptation of the 1992 novel of the same title by robert harris. This historical novel is based on the authors parents and what they went through as children in germany during the second world war.
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