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 ...
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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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Good. Good condition. With remainder mark. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
