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Endpapers - A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home (Paperback, Main)
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Endpapers - A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R312
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'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and
exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands 'Alexander Wolff is
keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories
wherever they might lead.' Claire Messud, Harpers Magazine 'As
riveting as the fiction the Wolffs themselves have published, and
deeply affecting.' Newsweek In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander
Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his
family's history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own
publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twenty-three, publishing
Franz Kafka, Emile Zola, Anton Chekhov and others whose books would
be burned by the Nazis. In 1933, Kurt and his wife Helen fled to
France and Italy, and later to New York, where they would bring
books including Doctor Zhivago, The Leopard and The Tin Drum to
English-speaking readers. Meanwhile, Kurt's son Niko, born from an
earlier marriage, was left behind in Germany. Despite his Jewish
heritage, he served in the German army and ended up in an prisoner
of war camp before emigrating to the US in 1948. As Alexander gains
a better understanding of his taciturn father's life, he finds
secrets that never made it to America and is forced to confront his
family's complex relationship with the Nazis. This stunning account
of a family navigating wartime and its aftershocks brilliantly
evokes the perils, triumphs and secrets of history and exile.
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