num_pages: 320
description: * A European classic * Set in Romania, Austria and Germany between the last century's world wars, this is the story of one man. Our hero tells of his childhood: his passion for hunting, his love of the wild landscape of Romania, his ridiculous social snobbery. He leads us through his youth, and between fantastic and colourful stories of Bucharest in the late twenties and early thirties, he dissects his own complicated, at times agonizing, development as a moral creature. We are with him as the Nazis take over Austria; as his own anti-semitism - already such a mixture of belief, caprice, and compromise - is shaken to its core. And later on we meet him as a much older man, one haunted by his own protean character, by the beautiful but tragic web of memories and events that together form his history, and by the greatest love of his life, a beautiful Jewess.
language: English
title: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
titlecomplete: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
genres: Fiction, War, Romania, Short Stories, German Literature, Jewish, Literature, Germany, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 1166
places: Germany, Romania, Austria
publisher: Picador