Synopsis
This novel begins in 1954. In a penal institution for deliquent boys on an island in the river Elbe, Siggi Jepson, who has a mania for stealing pictures, is set an essay on 'The Joys of Duty' for his German lesson. The subject of the essay takes him back to 1943, when his father, a country policeman, carried out his duties in Nazi Germany.
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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.
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The German Lesson
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Macdonald, London, 1971
ISBN 10: 0356036391
ISBN 13: 9780356036397
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. Famous german novel. Highly praised. DJ has edge wear an. Book has prev. owners ink stamp on the bottom of pages. Seller Inventory # 005617