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God's Horse and the Atheists' School
Wilhelm Dichter
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Paperback. "God's Horse originally published in Polish by Znak (Krakow) under the title Koan Pana Boga, copyright (c) 1996 by Wilhelm Dichter. The Atheists' School originally published in Polish by Znak (Krakow) under the title Szkola bezbocznikaow, copyright (c) 1999 by Wilhelm Dichter." Translator(s): Levine, Madeline G. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
God's Horse (1996) and The Atheists' School (1999), Wilhelm Dichter's novelistic memoirs, are both striking for their spare, precise prose and for the fullness with which they inhabit the perspectives of, respectively, a young boy trying to survive the Holocaust in hiding and an adolescent in the turbulent world of post-war Poland. The books openly address a rarely documented phenomenon - a young Jewish boy who, having escaped death in Nazi-occupied Poland, ascends into the upper echelons of Polish society as a committed Communist. After the war, the narrator becomes the stepson of a rising star in the petroleum ministry. ... Read more
God's Horse (1996) and The Atheists' School (1999), Wilhelm Dichter's novelistic memoirs, are both striking for their spare, precise prose and for the fullness with which they inhabit the perspectives of, respectively, a young boy trying to survive the Holocaust in hiding and an adolescent in the turbulent world of post-war Poland. The books openly address a rarely documented phenomenon - a young Jewish boy who, having escaped death in Nazi-occupied Poland, ascends into the upper echelons of Polish society as a committed Communist. After the war, the narrator becomes the stepson of a rising star in the petroleum ministry. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810127937
SKU
V9780810127937
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