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The game of cards / Adolf Schröder ; translated from the German by Andrew Brown.
Van Pelt Library PT2680.R613 K3713 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schröder, Adolf, 1938-
- Standardized Title:
- Kartenspiel. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish girls--Fiction.
- Jewish girls.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 143 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pushkin, 2007.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- The young Markus Hauser takes a job with Selma Brunhs, a decidedly strange elderly lady who pays him to file hundreds of her letters in chronological order. For six days Markus works conscientiously, all the while penetrating little by little the past of this woman who surrounds herself with cats and memories. On the last day Selma proposes a bargain, a card game that will change his life forever.
- ISBN:
- 1901285715
- 9781901285710
- OCLC:
- 70400590
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