The Tortoises

By Veza Canetti

Book Overview

A renowned writer and his wife live quietly in a beautiful villa outside Vienna, until the triumphant Nazis start subjecting their Jewish "hosts" to ever greater humiliations. Veza Canetti focuses on seemingly ordinary people to epitomize the horror: one flag-happy German kills a sparrow before a group of little children; another, more entrepreneurial Nazi brands tortoises with swastikas to sell as souvenirs commemorating the Anschluss.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811216969
• ISBN13: 9780811216968
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.0"