Amerika
Publisher: Schocken
Published: January 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780805204179
Subjects: Modern fiction; Non-Classifiable; Literature: Classics; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself a child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before.