Description
On a European book tour, Erich—charming, restless, and deeply self-possessed—draws an ambitious young man into his confidence, offering a life story that unfolds with startling candor. Spanning the late twentieth century, his recollections trace a formative friendship with Maurice and an unrequited love that never quite finds its place, even as Erich navigates desire, ambition, and moral compromise. From growing up as a gay man in Nazi Germany to the shifting freedoms and dangers of later decades, the novel examines how identity, power, and self-invention can both sustain and corrode a person. With John Boyne’s propulsive, character-driven storytelling, this is a sweeping, psychologically sharp portrait of a man who treats other lives as rungs on his own ladder—until the cost of that climb becomes impossible to ignore.
Available Editions
paperback
Hogarth
Published Jan 1, 2018
362 pages
ISBN: 9781984823014
paperback
Doubleday UK
Published Aug 23, 2018
368 pages
ISBN: 9780857523501
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Details
First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne.