
The Tortoises
Veza Canetti(Author)
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Will be published approx. on 2. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8112-1696-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-1696-8 (9780811216968)
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Persons
Veza Canetti (1897-1963) was born in Vienna. With the rise of Fascism, she and her husband Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction, left Vienna for Paris, and then finally settled in London in 1939.