# Munich Airport

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- Book: [Munich Airport](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-baxter/munich-airport) ([Munich Airport.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-baxter/munich-airport.md))
- Authors: [Greg Baxter](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-baxter)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-998-4
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2015-04-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An 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. Three 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. Munich 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.