Über den Autor
Tony Musgrave lived in Berlin (West) from 1973 until 1990 and has lived in Berlin (East & West) since then. He was born in Bath, England, grew up in Liverpool, has lived in London, Lüneburg, Hanau/Main, Tehran and on the islands of Cyprus and Elba and has spent much time in Cracow, Poland. He became a full-time writer in 1990 and has had short stories published in literary magazines such as London Magazine and Panurge and anthologized in the Best Short Stories series and in naked graffiti, a collection of erotic tales, which includes work by Kathy Acker, Martin Amis, Pete Townshend, Will Self, and Fay Weldon.
Klappentext
Bill Greenstone, an Englishman living in Berlin, has to decide whether to move to Cracow to be near Marta Szadkowska, an expert on Japanese art, or to stay in Berlin, to be comforted by Uta Schmidtbauer, his Marxist-Leninist cleaning lady. In Berlin, he discovers that from the house in which he lives, in the years 1942 - 44 twenty-one people were deported to the East, eleven of them on one day to Auschwitz. In Cracow, at the Remuh synagogue, he meets Lewenherz Maks, from whom he hears the story of the destruction of Jewish Kazimierz. And finds the courage to admit that Siemens, for whom he has worked for the last twenty years, had been intimately involved in the Nazi crimes against humanity. Through these painful confrontations, he is able at last to look clearly at his own loss, the death of his son, and to decide his future.
(Verlag: Tony Musgrave)
