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Tortoises
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Tortoises

Veza Canetti
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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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country
United States
Date
8 January 2010
Pages
256
ISBN
9780811216968

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country
United States
Date
8 January 2010
Pages
256
ISBN
9780811216968

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