Name: the german lesson
SKU: 2542174
Price: 29.24 EUR
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Author: Lenz, Siegfried
ISBN: 9780811209823

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Author

Siegfried Lenz

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4x12.9x2.9 cm

Weight

0.51 kg.

ISBN

0811209822

ISBN13

9780811209823

Synopsis "the german lesson"

Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is 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 painting and to seize all his "degenerate work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. Against the great brooding northern landscape. Siggi recounts the clash of father and son, of duty and personal loyalty, in wartime Germany. "I was trying to find out," Lenz says, where the joys of duty could lead a people

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