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Kiebitz / Kiebitz
Novel
Right at the beginning of this novel, André Kaminski looks back on the life of his protagonist: just a few years after the end of the Second World War, Gideon Esdur Kiebitz, a young Jew seized by the desire to live a life »in the first person« decided to make the audacious leap form the 19th to the 21st century. He emigrated to build a new society with like-minded comrades, a world of equality and fraternity, of freedom from misery and oppression. But after all these years, little remains of...
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Right at the beginning of this novel, André Kaminski looks back on the life of his protagonist: just a few years after the end of the Second World War, Gideon Esdur Kiebitz, a young Jew seized by the desire to live a life »in the first person« decided to make the audacious leap form the 19th to the 21st century. He emigrated to build a new society with like-minded comrades, a world of equality and fraternity, of freedom from misery and oppression. But after all these years, little remains of that utopia. Now, older and wiser, he lives in Vienna, far from the island of his dreams, alone and mute – for the blows of fate have taken away his language. Might a doctor be able to help him?
1988, 362 pages
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André Kaminski
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Andre Kaminski (1923–1991) was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and emigrated to Poland in 1945. After being arrested as a dissident in 1968, he emigrated to Israel but returned to Switzerland within a year. A former reporter who lived in Africa for several years, he wrote numerous plays and various books of prose. He was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize in 1987 for Kith and Kin.
André Kaminski
Author
Andre Kaminski (1923–1991) was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and emigrated to Poland in 1945. After being arrested as a dissident in...
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Year of Publication: 1990
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Kith and Kin
In this vibrant and witty family saga, André Kaminski chronicles the fortunes and misadventures of two Jewish families as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is crumbling, World War I is brewing, and...
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