Munich Airport By Greg Baxter. 9780241969984

A story for our time- about the meaning of home and the families we improvise when our real families fall apart\nAn American expat in London takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman, and the news she has to convey to him is almost incomprehensible- his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin flat, of starvation.\nThree weeks later, the man, his elderly father, and an American consular official find themselves in a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is to be loaded onto a commercial jet. Greg Baxter's extraordinary novel tells the story of these three people over those three weeks of waiting for Miriam's body to be released.\nMunich Airport is a novel about the meaning of home, and about the families we improvise when our real families fall apart. It is a gripping, daring and mesmeric read from one of the most gifted young novelists currently at work.\n\nWe are sure that you will be delighted with your purchase.\n\nHowever, in the event that an issu.