A renowned writer and his wife live quietly in a beautiful villa outside Vienna, until the triumphant Nazis start subjecting their Jewish "hosts" to ever greater humiliations. Veza Canetti focuses on seemingly ordinary people to epitomize the horror: one flag-happy German kills a sparrow before a group of little children; another, more entrepreneurial Nazi brands tortoises with swastikas to sell as souvenirs commemorating the Anschluss.
- ISBN10 0811214680
- ISBN13 9780811214681
- Publish Date 29 October 2001
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 9 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English