A Jewish mother from Berlin : a novel ; Susanna : a novella /
In A Jewish Mother from Berlin, Martha Jadassohn's seemingly conventional life plunges into chaos after a brutal attack on her only child. As Martha assumes the self-imposed mission of combing Berlin for the man who raped five-year-old Ursa, she encounters Berlin's staid and seamy sides -...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
Holmes & Meier,
1997
New York : c1997 New York : ©1997 New York : 1997 |
| Series: | Modern German voices series
Modern German voices series |
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| Summary: | In A Jewish Mother from Berlin, Martha Jadassohn's seemingly conventional life plunges into chaos after a brutal attack on her only child. As Martha assumes the self-imposed mission of combing Berlin for the man who raped five-year-old Ursa, she encounters Berlin's staid and seamy sides - a world peopled with working-class weekend gardeners, middle-class cultural snobs, transvestites, a former Spanish dancer turned hostess with a secret, and a Jewish lawyer who clings rigidly to the rule of law Two novels by a Jewish writer who died in a World War II concentration camp. The title novel is on a woman's hunt for the rapist of her daughter amid the decadence of 1920s Berlin, while the novel, Susanna, is a romance whose protagonist is a mentally ill girl Another heroine on a quest for love and self-expression propels the lyrical novella Susanna, a finely wrought psychological portrait of an outsider. The ethereally beautiful Susanna sets out on a tragic search for her lost lover, only to find herself floundering in a world where everyone's perceptions clash with her own During her harrowing quest, Martha becomes obsessed with a handsome, shallow "Aryan" type in a relationship that intensifies her solitude and alienation. Kolmar peels away the layers of Martha's outward restraint to bare the soul of a woman slowly shattered by a callous society in which Jews are outcasts and women preyed upon |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 202 p. ; 21 cm 202 p. ; 22 cm 202 p. ; 22cm 202 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0841913455 (acid-free paper) 0841913455 (alk. paper) 0841913455 9780841913455 (acid-free paper) 9780841913455 |