Götz and Meyer / David Albahari ; translated from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursać.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albahari, David, 1948-2023.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Elias-Bursa*c, Ellen, translator.

Series:

Harvest book

Standardized Title:

Gec i Majer. English

Language:

English

Serbian

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Teachers--Fiction.

Teachers.

Belgrade (Serbia)--Fiction.

Belgrade (Serbia).

Serbia--Belgrade.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

168 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Harvest edition.

Place of Publication:

Orlando, FL : Harcourt, 2006.

Summary:

Gotz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, "not a big one," but one that "requires efficiency." Their task is to transport five thousand concentration camp prisoners, one hundred at a time, in a hermetically sealed truck in which they are gassed. As Albahari's anonymous narrator, a teacher, obsessively pursues the truth of this systematic annihilation, he shares his findings with his students. Their school bus becomes that truck, and as the memory of Belgrade's lost Jewish souls is evoked, the students are bewildered. Their teacher, exhausted as much by the task of making history come alive as by the toll his research has taken on him, is finally overwhelmed by the horror of his own imaginings.

ISBN:

0156031108

9780156031103

9780151011414

0151011419

OCLC:

78917677

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