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Availability:In StockContributor:Gabriele Tergit, Sophie Duvernoy (Translator)Publish date:11/11/2025Pages:864
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379791ISBN-10:1681379791UPC:9781681379791Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Historical, Family LifeBook Topic:Germany, 20th CenturySize:8.30 x 5.20 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SC093YW7HK
Effingers
Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to time. Gabriele Tergit's Effingers is a novel, at once epic and intimate, about the lives and fates of three generations of a German Jewish family....
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379791ISBN-10:1681379791UPC:9781681379791Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Historical, Family LifeBook Topic:Germany, 20th CenturySize:8.30 x 5.20 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SC093YW7HK
Gabriele Tergit (1894-1982), born Elise Hirschmann, was a German novelist and reporter. She began writing newspaper articles in the early 1920s under her pseudonym and eventually rose to prominence at the Berliner Tageblatt as one of Berlin's best-known court reporters. Her first novel, Käsebier Takes Berlin (available from NYRB Classics) cemented her reputation as a brilliant social satirist of...
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