The wall
Subtitle: a novel
By: H.G. Adler ; translated from the German by Peter Filkins
Contributors: Filkins, Peter, translator
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780812993066
Subjects: Self-realization; Exiles; Psychic trauma; Holocaust survivors; Fiction
Work titles: Unsichtbare Wand
Description: "Told in a ... stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of our finest modernist writers, The Wall is the story of Arthur Landau, a Holocaust survivor struggling to leave behind the horrors of the past and find a foothold in the present. After the war, Arthur returns to Prague in the hope of finding his parents, works in a museum that collects Jewish artifacts, and eventually crosses the border, leaving his homeland and friends for good. Despite the loss of his first wife to the camps, the love of his second wife Johanna and their two children anchors him amid the chaotic and competitive world of postwar exiles living in London"--
Notes: Translation from the German of: Die unsichtbare Wand.
Table of contents: title: Translator's Note; title: Introduction by Peter Filkins; title: The Wall; title: List of Characters; title: Principal Events.