Dr. B. : a novel / Daniel Birnbaum ; translated from Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birnbaum, Daniel, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Bragan-Turner, Deborah, translator.

Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Sweden--Stockholm--Fiction.

Refugees.

Authors and publishers--Sweden--Stockholm--Fiction.

Authors and publishers.

World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Moles (Spies)--Fiction.

Moles (Spies).

Sweden--Stockholm.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage^FICTION / Historical / World War II^FICTION / Sagas.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

268 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Summary:

"The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather's life."--Book jacket.

"In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. Living as a refugee in Stockholm, Immanuel continues to write, contributing articles to a liberal Swiss newspaper in Basel under the name Dr. B. He also begins working as an editor for the legendary German publisher S. Fischer Verlag. Gottfried Bermann Fischer had established an office in Stockholm to evade German censorship, publishing celebrated German writers such as Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig. Immanuel also becomes entangled with British intelligence agents who produce and distribute anti-Nazi propaganda in Stockholm. On orders from Winston Churchill, the Allied spies plan several acts of sabotage. But when the Swedish postal service picks up a letter written in invisible ink, the plotters are exposed. The letter, long a mystery in military history accounts, was in fact written by Dr. B. But why would a Jew living in exile and targeted for death by the Nazis have wanted to tip them off?"--Book jacket.

Notes:

"Originally published in Sweden in 2018 by Albert Bonniers Förlag."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780062939814

0062939815

OCLC:

1296020983

Publisher Number:

99990893053