The Inheritance
Published on 31. August 2012
240 pages
978-1-908968-65-4 (ISBN)
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Daniel Loew, a poet based in London, has been told since childhood that one day he will become his wealthy uncle's only heir. When he learns of his uncle's death, in Caracas, a few weeks have since passed. A close friend of his uncle's tells Loew that he alone has been named executor of the will and blocks Loew from receiving his inheritance. In a harrowing chase from Venezuela to Miami, via Hamburg and Panama City, on a background of political upheavals as Hugo Chavez attempts and fails his 1992 military coup, Loew leads a desperate fight to regain his considerable inheritance.
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Peter Stephan Jungk was born in 1952 in Los Angeles and raised in several European cities. Since 1988 he has been living in Paris and works as author, film script author, translator, and essayist.A former screenwriting fellow of the American Film Institute, he is the author of eight books, including the acclaimed biography Franz Werfel: A Life from Prague to Hollywood (1990) and the novels The Snowflake Constant shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (Faber and Faber, 2002 - published in the US as Tigor by Handsel Books 2003), and The Perfect American (Handsel Books, 2004), a fictional biography of Walt Disney's last months, which was turned into an opera by Philip Glass. Peter Stephan Jungk has been published extensively, his creative works extending also to the media of radio and television.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1: NOISE
- 2: ARRIVAL
- 3: ESTHER MORENO
- 4: ALBACEA
- 5: ROOM 1813
- 6: SIMONE VON OELFFEN
- 7: FIRST AID
- 8: RED MEAT
- 9: THE MONEY-BELT
- 10: MERAN
- 11: THE ARBITRATOR
- 12: AFTERNOON STROLL
- 13: DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN
- 14: BEFORE THE LAW
- 15: PENSION WAGNER
- 16: FORTY DEGREES IN THE SHADE
- 17: PANAMA CITY
- 18: ELDORADO
- 19: WE HAVE MADE HISTORY
- 20: THE HEARING
- 21: MADURODAM
- 22: PHYLACTERIES
- 23: MIAMI
- 24: SAMSON'S CREDIT CARD
- 25: THE WONDER RABBI
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