Live bodies
By: Maurice Gee.
Publisher: Penguin Books (NZ)
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- New Zealand -- Fiction.; Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction.; Jews -- New Zealand -- Fiction.; Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.; Jewish men -- Fiction.; New Zealand -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: As a young man in the 1930s, Josef Mandl battles the Nazis on the streets of Vienna. Fleeing to New Zealand, he is interned as a dangerouos alien on Somes Island in Wellington harbour. After the war he becomes a successful businessman, a family patriarch. Now, in old age, he looks back, retracing his life.