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MELNITZ
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| By: |
Charles Lewinsky, Shaun Whiteside (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1848877676 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781848877672 |
| Publisher: |
ATLANTIC BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
4 February, 2016 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
640 |
| Description: |
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 |
| Synopsis: |
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 the bosom of the family, but when Janki recovers and regains his ambition and his fine-looks, he will change the Meijer family's lives for generations to come... In the tradition of the great family romances of the nineteenth century, Melnitz is the saga of the Swiss-Jewish Meijer family, spanning five generations from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II. It is a novel of fate, fortune and great falls; a homage to the sunken world of yiddish culture and a celebration of the enduring spirit of biting Jewish humour. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Atlantic Books |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2016 |
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Returnable |
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