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Melnitz
Charles Lewinsky
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Description for Melnitz
Paperback. The international-bestelling saga of a large and colourful Jewish family buffeted from quiet respectability-of-sorts in 1871 to the Nazi death camps of 1945 Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the doorstep stands his young distant cousin, Janki, half-dead and begging for refuge. The pitiful figure is invited in and given a coveted place in ... Read more
1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the doorstep stands his young distant cousin, Janki, half-dead and begging for refuge. The pitiful figure is invited in and given a coveted place in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
460g
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848877672
SKU
V9781848877672
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Ref
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About Charles Lewinsky
Charles Lewinsky studied German literature and theatre studies in Zurich and Berlin. Among the numerous novels that he has written, he received the Schiller Prize Zurcher Kantonalbank for his novel St. John's (2001) and was nominated for the 2011 Swiss Book Prize for Gerron (2012). He lives in Zurich and the French Vereux.
Reviews for Melnitz
An outstanding novel of a quality only seldom met with... This reviewer cannot remember having read such an extensive book in the last few years as swiftly, easily and inquisitively as this one
Neue Zurcher Zeitung (Switzerland)
The reader lives, loves and suffers with the characters... Charles Lewinsky has written a real page-turner
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) ... Read more
Neue Zurcher Zeitung (Switzerland)
The reader lives, loves and suffers with the characters... Charles Lewinsky has written a real page-turner
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) ... Read more