War Story
by Gwen Edelman
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Kitty meets Joseph in a New York bookstore. He is a famous playwright, an Austrian Jew who has survived the Holocaust, travelled the world and now, at sixty, lives in a faded, bohemian hotel in downtown Manhattan (a hotel he tells her, for madmen and artists). In his dusty, book-stacked room they begin an erotic and all consuming affair.Tags
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This is a moving story of Kitty, a young aspiring writer, who meets Joseph Kluger, a much older published author and Holocaust survivor. They quickly become lovers, and she learns to tolerate his crude behavior and listen to his war stories. He had survived the war because his Viennese parents sent him to a foster Dutch family as the war years began. The novel traces Joseph’s life, the pair’s relationship, and their final breakup. As the novel opens, Kitty is traveling to his funeral in the Netherlands, and the book is the story of their relationship over the years they were together.
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- People/Characters
- Joseph Kruger; Kitty Jacobs
- Quotations
- I have had many names, he said with a shrug. The fate of a Jew my darling. He must constantly metamorphose to stay one step ahead, to remain alive.
You live in the language you were born with, you repeat the sounds you have always lived with. around each word clusters a universe of sounds and smells.
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, French, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 11
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