“A Ladder To The Sky” by John Boyne (2018)

[image error] From the moment I accepted the invitation, I was nervous about returning to Germany.

I dont often dabble in literary fiction, finding the snobbery surrounding it really off-putting. Nonetheless, some of it slips through the net when the story seems interesting enough, which is how I came to A Ladder to the Sky.

Erich Ackerman, once a celebrated author whose greatest work is behind him, has lived a long and lonely life, but upon meeting young waiter and would-be-novelist Maurice Swift, it...