Kahn & Engelmann
Subtitle: a novel
By: Hans Eichner ; translated from the German by Jean M. Snook.
Contributors: Snook, Jean M., 1952-; Eichner, Hans.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Biblioasis international translation series; Biblioasis international translation series
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Emeryville, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781897231548
Subjects: Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction; Vienna (Austria) -- History -- Fiction; Austria -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: Kahn and Engelmann
Description: "A critical and commercial success in German, Kahn & Engelmann tells the story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary, their immigration to Vienna in the great days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, their loves, business ventures and failings and their eventual tragic destruction, recreating a vanished Vienna with humour and humanity. Travelling, in the words of narrator Peter Engelmann, is "the involuntary national sport of the Jews," and Engelmann does much of it: through snowy woods to escape the Nazis to a new life in England, then on to Australia, Canada and eventually Israel. It is also a novel of faith and its attendant crises, and of the strained relationship of literature to the world. Written by an eminent scholar, himself a survivor of Nazism, Kahn & Engelmann is both an entertaining novel and a major work of Holocaust literature, available for the first time to an English-reading audience."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published in German as: Kahn & Engelmann. Wien : Picus, 2000.