Don Quixote in Exile (Jewish Lives) - Softcover

Furst, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810114488 ISBN 13: 9780810114487

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Peter Furst's biographical novel is the chronicle of a Jew who fled Germany in the 1930s.

The odyssey begins in Monte Carlo, where a narrator named Peter is covering the auto races for a German newspaper. Preferring life as an exile over a return to Nazi Germany, Peter bounces to Madrid, where he's branded a Nazi; covers the Spanish Civil War from the back room of a Vienna coffeehouse; and journeys to Belgrade, where all the cafe patrons without dark glasses are assumed to be spies. His final journey, however, is far from droll or ironic: he and his new bride must desperately search the Caribbean for a country that will allow them entry.

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From the Back Cover:

Narrated episodically in a droll and tender voice. Often ironic and always thoughtful, Furst is at his best when he balances a journalist's cynicism with an exile's yearning for permanence and sanctuary. 'Don Quixote in Exile' provides fresh insight into the plight of a man exiled from a home he no longer wishes to know.

About the Author:

Peter Furst was born in Berlin in 1910. He was a sports reporter and columnist with the Berliner Tageblatt before he fled Germany to the Dominican Republic in 1934. After emigrating to the United States in 1946, he worked for the Jewish Health Organization and as a radio commentator for the Voice of America. He lives in Oakland, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0810114488
• ISBN 13: 9780810114487
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209