You Are the Führer's Unrequited Love

A wonderfully intelligent and radical portrait of Albert Speer. Fascinating, a triumph

William Boyd

Portraying Speer's trajectory from urban planner to minister for armaments (and, eventually, jail after the Nuremberg trials), it unfolds as a chillingly ordinary workplace drama... Orengo's highly effective storytelling technique mixes an elegant filleting of secondary sources with crisp reflections of truth and falsehood

Daily Mail

A stark exploration of Albert Speer … surgical, almost forensic in its historical investigation

Irish Times

A masterfully unconventional novel about Speer’s two lives: as Hitler’s personal architect, ally and confidant; and as the world’s idealised specimen of a "good Nazi"... It reads as the character study of a man who manipulated one of the most powerful men on Earth

Vincenzo Latronico, Guardian

In telling Speer's story, Orengo largely forsakes traditional fiction techniques... this allies the book with other self-consciously historical novels, or novelistic histories, including Laurent Binet's HHhH, Eric Vuillard's The Order of the Day and Benjamin Labatut's The Maniac

Chris Power, Observer

An intriguing factual novel... thought-provoking. It makes you think hard about culpability, about the struggle to keep your sense of right and wrong in a totalitarian system

Robbie Millen, Sunday Times

Superb... a work of metahistory... Like a mystery, it is concerned with guilt and accountability... The reader of this lucid, elegant novel is left to reflect on the many ways in which, in the wrong hands, art and memory can conspire to obscure as well as to illuminate

Barry Langford, The Conversation

The truth behind 'the good Nazi'... thought-provoking... a hybrid of historical essay and novel

Magdalena Miecznicka, Financial Times