Melnitz
Lewinsky, Charles, 1946-2016
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1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the doorstep stands a young distant cousin, Janki, half-dead and begging for refuge. The pitiful figure is invited in and given a coveted place in the bosom of the family, but when Janki recovers and regains his ambition and his fine-looks, he will change the Meijer family's lives for generations to come.
Main title:
Melnitz / Charles Lewinsky ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Author:
Lewinsky, Charles, 1946-, authorWhiteside, Shaun, translator
Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2016.
Collation:
656 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781848877672 (pbk)
Dewey class:
833.92
LC class:
PT2672.E89
Local class:
FT PbkF
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
1046052