num_pages: 115
description: Max Schmidt grew up in the stockroom of his father's fur store cloaked among the foxes minks and leopards hiding from the glaring eyes of a stuffed tiger atop the wardrobe. It is here he dreams of traveling to distant lands; and here as a young man he begins an affair with the store's married clerk.Forced to flee when his lover's husband discovers the affair and denounces Max to the Nazi secret police Max steals away to Hamburg where he takes passage on a freighter destined for disaster. When the ship founders somewhere off the coast of South America Max is trapped in a dinghy with a hungry jaguar. Max believes his days are numbered-until he washes ashore on the coast of tiny Porto Alegre Brazil prepared to begin anew in the tropical clime.But when Max discovers his next-door neighbor is a Nazi hiding from persecution he finds that for the first time in his life he is the master of his own destiny ready to take matters into his own hands...
language: English
title: Max and the Cats
publisher: Plume