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The German lesson / Siegfried Lenz ; translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins.
LIBRA - Special PT2623.E583 D413 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lenz, Siegfried, 1926-2014.
- Standardized Title:
- Deutschstunde. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 470 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1986.
- Summary:
- Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, in one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on the 'The Joys of Duty.'Overfamiliar with these 'joys, ' Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, constable of the northernmost police station in Germany, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist, their neighbor, from paintings to keep them safe from his father.
- Notes:
- Translation of Deutschstunde.
- ISBN:
- 0811209822
- 9780811209823
- OCLC:
- 23251062
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