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An Austrian Jew in a 1940s antipodean and colonial society, Josef Mandl is in harmony and in conflict with Austrians, Germans and New Zealanders alike. His story mirrors the alien experience everywhere.
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Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's best-known writers, for both adults and children. He has won a number of literary awards, including the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the New Zealand Fiction Award. He has also won the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. In 2003 he received an inaugural New Zealand Icon Award and in 2004 he received an a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. Maurice Gee's novels include the Plumb trilogy, Going West, Prowlers, Live Bodies and The Scornful Moon. He has also written a number of children's novels, the most recent being Salt and Gool. Maurice lives in Nelson with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140273808
- ISBN 13 9780140273809
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 270 pages. 264 p. ; 23 cm As a young man in the 1930s, Josef Mandl battles the Nazis on the streets of Vienna. Fleeing to New Zealand, he is interned as a dangerouos alien on Somes Island in Wellington harbour. After the war he becomes a successful busine ssman, a family patriarch. Now, in old age, he looks back, retrac ing his life Novel Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 1998: Deutz Medal for Fiction Montana Deutz Medal for Fiction 1998 Winner. Seller Inventory # 779t
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