Melnitz - Softcover

Lewinsky, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848877668 ISBN 13: 9781848877665

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2015

Synopsis

1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the doorstep stands a young distant cousin, Janki, half-dead and begging for refuge. The pitiful figure is invited in and given a coveted place in the bosom of the family, but when Janki recovers and regains his ambition and his fine-looks, he will change the Meijer family's lives for generations to come.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Lewinsky studied German literature and theatre studies in Zurich and Berlin. Among the numerous novels that he has written, he received the Schiller Prize Zurcher Kantonalbank for his novel St. John's (2001) and was nominated for the 2011 Swiss Book Prize for Gerron (2012). He lives in Zurich and the French Vereux.

Review:

Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2016.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1848877668
• ISBN 13: 9781848877665
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656