Jacob Kushner, author of LOOK AWAY - an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Jacob Kushner, author of Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants.

After the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East Germany during the economic crisis that found some four million East Germans out of jobs. The friends began attending far-right rallies with people who called themselves National Socialists: Nazis. Like the Hitler-led Nazis before them, they blamed minorities for their ills. From 2000 to 2011, they embarked on a horrific string of white nationalist killings. Look Away follows Beate Zschäpe and her two accomplices as they radicalized, escaped into hiding, and carried out their terrorist spree. Unable to believe that the brutal killings and bombings were being carried out by white Germans, police blamed - and sometimes framed - the immigrants instead.

From Jeffrey Toobin: "Jacob Kushner’s Look Away is, at one level, a compelling true-crime thriller about a trio of German terrorists on the run. But it’s also a warning about the dangers of white supremacy and right-wing extremism – and about how the fear and hatred of immigrants, combined with the incompetence (or worse) of law enforcement, remains a threat around the world."

Jacob Kushner is author of China’s Congo Plan, and his writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the New Yorker. A Fulbright-Germany scholar and Logan Nonfiction Fellow, he was a finalist for the Livingston Award in International Reporting. He teaches at the Pulitzer Center, the Overseas Press Club, and several universities.

from Boswell. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.

Event Venue

Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, United States