Tales of the Master Race

by Marcie Hershman

Book Overview

Marcie Hershman's haunting Tales of the Master Race circles the streets of Kreiswald, an imaginary town in Germany, during the crucial years of the Third Reich. It takes us inside the lives of "ordinary" German citizens-Aryan men and women-marking the subtle and more overt alterations brought about by the Nazi regime. In a series of interlinked stories with overlapping characters, a devastating portrait emerges of the chance effects on everyday existence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060166444
• ISBN13: 9780060166441
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Pay attention

It has been a long time since I have read a novel this engaging. What a page turner! I could not put it down! What makes the story even more fascinating is the way it is so well-written, you can see yourself in the characters and their total obliviousness to what is going on around them in the midst of their self-centered little dramas -- pretty much like what is going on today in the USA. If only we could all see beyond the next drama to the bigger picture. The world is crumbling all around us, and we can't even see the sacrificial victims on the trains on their way to the ovens.Very often we wonder how such a thing could have happened. Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. It is not difficult at all. And all one has to do to change it is to pay attention.Pay attention now. Read this book.