The Gustav Sonata

The Gustav Sonata
First edition
AuthorRose Tremain
LanguageEnglish
PublisherChatto & Windus
Publication date
May 19, 2016
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages241
ISBN978-1-7847-40030

The Gustav Sonata is a novel by English author Rose Tremain published in 2016 by Chatto & Windus.

It won the National Jewish Book Award in 2016 and the Ribalow Prize in 2017 and it was also shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the Walter Scott Prize in 2016 and longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017.

It was loosely based on Paul Grüninger, Police Chief of the Canton of St Gallen in 1937.