Michael Hofmann
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Michael Hofmann is a German-born, British-educated poet and translator. He is the author of two books of essays and five books of poems, most recently One Lark, One Horse. Among his translations are plays by Bertolt Brecht and Patrick Süskind; the selected poems of Durs Grünbein and Gottfried Benn; and novels and stories by, among others, Franz Kafka; Peter Stamm; his father, Gert Hofmann; and fourteen books by Joseph Roth. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Florida.
Duff Cooper
Afterword by Michael Hofmann
“Operation Heartbreak is short, surprising and a joy to read . . . A perfect novel is a rare thing . . . How does [it] fit into the historical Operation Mincemeat? Ah, that is the most brilliant part of all—a shock, a joy and a perfect shift in the story . . . [A] classic.”
—John Self, The Times (UK)
A perfectly told tale of defeat and glory—and a paean to gallantry in the face of the absurd—inspired by a real-life secret mission during World War II.