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From Ferdinand von Schirach, among Germany’s many outstanding defense lawyers, comes a jolting debut assortment of stories that daringly brings to light the motives mixing inside the legal brain. By turns amusing and sorrowful, unflinchingly intense and tragic, the seriously influencing, silently unnerving instances offered in Offense desire a deeper study of shame and innocence.In “Fähner,” a tiny-town physician and enthusiastic farmer betrays little feeling when he takes an ax to his wife’s mind, an act that shocks the residents but supplies a long-anticipated liberation for the great doctor. Abbas, a Palestinian refugee who is cornered right into a life of crime, discovers real love and apparently a saving elegance with an attractive pupil called Stefanie in “Summertime.” Nevertheless when she's viciously killed in an accommodation after having been settled to rest with among the country’s richest guys, is Abbas at fault or is it the person who appears to have it all? And within the surprising tale “Love,” a man’s passion with his partner requires a grisly change as he involves grips with his unconventional—and uncontrollable—impulses to genuinely understand a woman.“Guilt,” creates von Schirach, “always provides a little of the problem.” Within this superbly nuanced and informing selection, shame is definitely not as clear cut whilst the offense, and justice is more unclear nevertheless.