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The German Officer's Boy de Harlan Greene

The German Officer's Boy

Autor Harlan Greene
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2005

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What really happened that afternoon in November 1938, when the young Polish Jew walked into the German embassy in Paris and shots rang out? The immediate consequence was concrete: Nazi Germany retaliated with the "Night of Broken Glass," recognized as the beginning of the Holocaust. Lost and overlooked in the aftermath is the arresting story of Herschel Grynszpan, the confused teenager whose murder of Ernst vom Rath was used to justify Kristallnacht. In this historical novel, award-winning writer Harlan Greene may be the first author to take the Polish Jew at his word. Historians have tried to explain away Herschel Grynszpan's claim that he was involved in a love affair with vom Rath; Greene, instead, traces the lives of the underprivileged and persecuted Herschel Grynszpan and the wealthy German diplomat Ernst vom Rath as they move inevitably towards their ill-fated affair. In spare, vivid, and compelling prose, Greene imagines their world, their relationship, and their last horrific encounter, as they tried to wrest love and meaning from a world that would itself soon disappear in a whirlwind of disaster and madness.
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ISBN-13: 9780299208103
ISBN-10: 0299208109
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 127 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Recenzii

"Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving."—Janette Turner Hospital, author of North of Nowhere, South of Loss and Due Preparations for the Plague

"A quite engaging, provocative, and worthy book. What was the tipping point for the Holocaust? Was one Jew the scapegoat for Kristallnacht, and the burning of the ovens beyond? And was his act of virtue less about Jewish patriotism than sexual revenge? The German Officer's Boy is an imaginative reopening of a small but pivotal crease in the narrative mystery and history of the Holocaust."—Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and Elijah Visible

"This is a highly original and compassionate account of how the fires of a forbidden love engulfed Europe. Harlan Greene has brought to life "the boy who started World War II" in a headlong narrative both tender and terrifying.—Katherine Govier, author of Creation: A Novel

Notă biografică

The son of Holocaust survivors, Harlan Greene is the author of several books of nonfiction and the novels Why We Never Danced the Charleston and the Lambda Literary Award winner What the Dead Remember. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

Descriere

What really happened that afternoon in November 1938, when the young Polish Jew walked into the German embassy in Paris and shots rang out? The immediate consequence was concrete: Nazi Germany retaliated with the "Night of Broken Glass," recognized as the beginning of the Holocaust. Lost and overlooked in the aftermath is the arresting story of Herschel Grynszpan, the confused teenager whose murder of Ernst vom Rath was used to justify Kristallnacht. In this historical novel, award-winning writer Harlan Greene may be the first author to take the Polish Jew at his word. Historians have tried to explain away Herschel Grynszpan's claim that he was involved in a love affair with vom Rath; Greene, instead, traces the lives of the underprivileged and persecuted Herschel Grynszpan and the wealthy German diplomat Ernst vom Rath as they move inevitably towards their ill-fated affair. In spare, vivid, and compelling prose, Greene imagines their world, their relationship, and their last horrific encounter, as they tried to wrest love and meaning from a world that would itself soon disappear in a whirlwind of disaster and madness.

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