Christa Krüger Knihy

Suhrkamp BasisBiographien: Leben, Werk und Wirkung von Louis Begley.

Set in Poland in 1939, this novel looks at the impact of the Holocaust on the individual. The author was awarded the 1991 Irish Times-Aer Lingus Prize for fiction for this novel.

In 1912, rational Fred Fairly, one of Cambridge's best and brightest, crashes his bike and wakes up in bed with a stranger--fellow casualty Daisy Saunders, a charming, pretty, working-class nurse. So begins a series of complications--not only of the heart but also of the head--as Fred and Daisy take up each other's education and turn each other's philosophies upside-down.

As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closeted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, Maciek escapes with his aunt Tania. Together they endure the war, running, hiding, changing their names, forging documents to secure their temporary lives — as the insistent drum of the Nazi march moves ever closer to them and to their secret wartime lies.

1999 145 S. Softcover Frankfurt/M., Suhrkamp,