To Greet the Sun
Publisher: Old Street Pub.; Old Street Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781906964733; 9781905847631
Subjects: Germans; Fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: ONE LIFE. TWO HEROIC ACTS, HALF A CENTURY APART. Otto Eisinger, an elderly German émigré living alone in Brazil, attempts to thwart a pair of armed robbers and is savagely beaten. While he is convalescing in hospital, the media get hold of the CCTV footage and the old man unknowingly becomes a national hero. Otto is visited in the ward by his housekeeper's grandson, Pietro, a young journalist eager to understand the source of his extraordinary bravery. In a morphine-induced haze, and prompted by the uncanny resemblance between Pietro and Siggi, his closest friend in the Hitler Youth, Otto.