The Tortoises

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ISBN-10:

0811216969

ISBN-13:

9780811216968

Author(s): Canetti, Veza
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jun 29, 2007
Publisher: New Directions
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
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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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