Munichs: A Novel

· W. W. Norton & Company
eBook
480
Pages
This book will become available on 12 November 2024. You will not be charged until it is released.

About this eBook

From the acclaimed author of The Damned Utd, a novel of tragedy and renewal, inspired by one of the greatest disasters in the history of sports.

In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young group of star players nicknamed the “Busby Babes” after their charismatic manager Matt Busby. But on a snowy afternoon that February, a plane carrying the team back from a European Cup match crashed on takeoff in Munich, killing 23 people—including eight Manchester United players and three team officials. The accident destroyed the team, traumatized fans all over the world, and devastated the tight-knit community in Manchester.

In this hypnotic and deeply moving novel, renowned novelist David Peace reimagines the crash and its aftermath, dramatizing the deep scars it left on British society. Moving between the fictionalized voices of survivors, including players, their family members, and Busby himself, Munichs powerfully interprets the struggles of a team, a city, and a nation to recover and rise again.

Peace has been hailed as “brilliant” by Kazuo Ishiguro and his novels have been lauded as “incantatory” (Los Angeles Times), “ambitious and heartbreaking” (NPR), and “the stuff of great literature” (New York Times Book Review). With Munichs, he has crafted another extraordinary novel, one that intimately explores the reverberations of trauma and the power of community in the wake of tragedy.

About the author

David Peace is the author of eleven novels, including the Red Riding Quartet; GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the Tokyo Trilogy; Red or Dead; and The Damned Utd, which was made into a feature film starring Michael Sheen. He has been chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. Born and raised in Yorkshire, England, he now lives in Tokyo.

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