Bronstein's Children
by Jurek Becker
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"East Berlin, 1973: an 18-year-old Jew discovers that his father's friends are holding prisoner a former Nazi concentration camp guard in the family cottage. The three older men have handcuffed the ex-Nazi to the bed and are interrogating and torturing him in an attempt to get him to admit to his war crimes. . . . Becker keenly shows the tension between members of the Holocaust generation and their children, who are unable to understand the complexity of that nightmarish era of human show more history."--Booklist "[A] chilly, disquieting novel about historical slippage; about the seemingly inevitable decline of horror into a vague and generic recollection. The East German writer has devised something between story and allegory to evoke the cold generational millennium that separates a father, with his concentration-camp memories, from a son, adrift in a society with no memories whatsoever."--Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Mr. Becker, writing simply and clearly in an unstrained narrative, speaks with the voice of knowledge, and we do well to listen to him."--Eva Figes, New York Times Book Review Jurek Becker (1937-1998) is the author of Jacob the Liar, Sleepless Days, The Boxer, and Amanda Herzlos. show lessTags
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- Bronstein's Children
- Original title
- Bronsteins Kinder
- Original publication date
- 1986
- Original language
- German
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- 3518380176 1988 softcover German suhrkamp taschenbuch 1517
3518731300 2016 eBook German suhrkamp taschenbuch 1517
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
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- PT2662 .E294 .B7613 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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