Hedwig and Berti
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Author: Frieda Arkin
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
Thirty-six years after publishing her critically acclaimed first novel, eighty-seven-year-old Frieda Arkin returns to the literary world with a darkly humorous novel. "Hedwig and Berti" unfurls the saga of the grandly Teutonic Hedwig Kessler and her diminutive husband Berti, two upperclass German Jews forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Naxis, and their daughter Gerda, a mysterious, "elf-like" piano prodigy. This is a story of prejudice taken to extremes both within the domain of a class-conscious, German-Jewish family and beyond it. Arkin possesses a gift for combining love, wit, and dark realism in the reactions and behaviour of her characters.
Author: Frieda Arkin
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
Thirty-six years after publishing her critically acclaimed first novel, eighty-seven-year-old Frieda Arkin returns to the literary world with a darkly humorous novel. "Hedwig and Berti" unfurls the saga of the grandly Teutonic Hedwig Kessler and her diminutive husband Berti, two upperclass German Jews forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Naxis, and their daughter Gerda, a mysterious, "elf-like" piano prodigy. This is a story of prejudice taken to extremes both within the domain of a class-conscious, German-Jewish family and beyond it. Arkin possesses a gift for combining love, wit, and dark realism in the reactions and behaviour of her characters.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Frieda Arkin
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
Thirty-six years after publishing her critically acclaimed first novel, eighty-seven-year-old Frieda Arkin returns to the literary world with a darkly humorous novel. "Hedwig and Berti" unfurls the saga of the grandly Teutonic Hedwig Kessler and her diminutive husband Berti, two upperclass German Jews forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Naxis, and their daughter Gerda, a mysterious, "elf-like" piano prodigy. This is a story of prejudice taken to extremes both within the domain of a class-conscious, German-Jewish family and beyond it. Arkin possesses a gift for combining love, wit, and dark realism in the reactions and behaviour of her characters.
Author: Frieda Arkin
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
Thirty-six years after publishing her critically acclaimed first novel, eighty-seven-year-old Frieda Arkin returns to the literary world with a darkly humorous novel. "Hedwig and Berti" unfurls the saga of the grandly Teutonic Hedwig Kessler and her diminutive husband Berti, two upperclass German Jews forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Naxis, and their daughter Gerda, a mysterious, "elf-like" piano prodigy. This is a story of prejudice taken to extremes both within the domain of a class-conscious, German-Jewish family and beyond it. Arkin possesses a gift for combining love, wit, and dark realism in the reactions and behaviour of her characters.
Hedwig and Berti
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