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Friedrich (Hardcover, 1st New edition) Loot Price: R134
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Friedrich (Hardcover, 1st New edition)

Hans Peter Richter

Series: New Windmills

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Year by year, insult unto outrage, the cankerous reduction of Jewish life in Nazi Germany and the obliteration of one indestructible boy, Friedrich. As recalled in flashes by his downstairs neighbor and lifelong friend, laughter is tinged by what is to come: while his playmate chafes to get out in the snow too, four-year-old Friedrich and his mother stamp and slide and build a snowman. . . until the landlord bellows "Will you leave my roses in peace, you dirty little Jewboy you!" Friedrich's father is working, his friend's isn't and the first-day-of-school outing is Herr Schneider's treat, topped off with a larky photo of the two families astride an endless horse. Friedrich comes to a Jungvolk meeting, it is all glory to him, and hears a lecture on the despicable Jews; "my father" joins the Party and gets a job and, embarrassed, explains to Herr Schneider, who understands. Warned to leave Germany, he demurs: he has "Reasons"; "God has given us Jews a task. . . . We have always been persecuted - ever since we were exiled. . . . Perhaps we'll manage to put an end to our wandering by not seeking flight any more, by learning to suffer, by staying where we are." But there is no reason to "The Pogrom" when "I" too smashed glass or to "The Death" of Friedrich's mother on a pallet of rags in the wrecked apartment. Friedrich has a brief, lyrical encounter with an Aryan girl, a matter of "Benches" for Jew and gentile, before, denied refuge in the air-raid shelter, he dies in the shadow of the stoop. "His luck that he died this way," says the landlord. A chronology correlates events with the dates of the episodes; terse and graphic, bitterly or innocently funny, they are as undeniable as snapshots in an album. (Kirkus Reviews)
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. Friedrich is a Jewish boy growing up in pre-war Germany. This story of dramatic, moving and tragic incidents is an indictment of racial hatred.

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Imprint: Heinemann
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: New Windmills
Release date: July 1978
First published: 1978
Authors: Hans Peter Richter
Dimensions: 191 x 126 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 149
Edition: 1st New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-435-12226-3
Subtitles: German
Categories: Books > Children's & Educational > Language & literature > English (including English as a school subject) > English literature texts > Fiction texts
Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
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LSN: 0-435-12226-6
Barcode: 9780435122263

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