Title: Live bodies
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.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors in fiction, Jews, Jews in fiction, Austrians, Austrians in fiction, World War, 1939-1945 in fiction, Holocaust survivors, Fiction, Jewish men, Concentration camp inmates in fiction, Jewish men in fiction, World War, 1939-1945, New Zealand in fiction, Concentration camp inmates, Jewish refugees, Refugees, Concentration camps, New Zealand fiction
Places: New Zealand