The Tortoises (New Directions Paperbook)

Author: Veza Canetti
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, tortoises
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-06-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811216969
ISBN-13: 9780811216968

Book Description:

Spare, dark, and cinematic, The Tortoises describes life in the Nazi reign of terror.

A renowned writer and his wife live quietly in a beautiful villa outside Vienna, until the triumphant Nazis start subjecting their Jewish "hosts" to ever greater humiliations. Veza Canetti focuses on seemingly ordinary people to epitomize the horror: one flag-happy German kills a sparrow before a group of little children; another, more entrepreneurial Nazi brands tortoises with swastikas to sell as souvenirs commemorating the Anschluss.


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