num_pages: 256
description: In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet.Comedy and tragedy combine as our hero, Otto Korner, directs his quirky, libidinous fellow residents in the play and looks back over his adventures in Germany, Zurich, (where he met Lenin and inadvertently invented Dada), Auschwitz and America.
language: English
title: The Prince of West End Avenue
titlecomplete: The Prince of West End Avenue
genres: Historical, Fiction, Holocaust, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 317
awards: name: National Jewish Book Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage