Endpapers
A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America.Kurt Wolff was born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish family, whose ancestors included converts to Christianity, among them Baron Moritz von Haber, whose desire to demand satisfaction in a duel sparked off bloody antisemitic riots. Always bookish,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8021-5827-7
- EAN: 9780802158277
- Produktnummer: 34318874
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
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A fascinating family story of exile, assimilation, and the literary life, Berlin Reckoning recounts the extraordinary lives of the author's grandfather and father, who survived the turmoil of Germany's twentieth-century and sought better lives in America
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