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The Wall

By: Jurek Becker
Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
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Jurek Becker was one of the giants of postwar German literature. The novel for which he is best-known, Jacob the Liar, won wide acclaim, was awarded the Heinrich-Mann and Charles Veillon Prizes, and was made into two movies. It has been called a novel about the martyrdom of Europe’s Jews that has never been surpassed” (Times Literary Supplement). The Wall is a new, brief collection of stories by Becker that have either never been translated into English or been published here in audiobook form before. The title story, "The Wall," recounts two boys’ risky adventure when they scale the wall of a transit camp to visit the ghetto their families have recently vacated. In "The Most Popular Family Story," a favorite anecdote recounted year after year at the gatherings of an extended Jewish family subtly marks the absences left by the Holocaust. Also included are two stories of Communist East Germany and the wall that divided Berlin, "The Suspect" and "Romeo", as well as a short essay on the Lodz ghetto, "The Invisible City". Christine Becker has provided an introduction to the collection.

“The Wall” copyright 1980 by Suhrkamp Verlag; English-language translation copyright 1982, 2014 by Jurek Becker and Leila Vennewitz; “The Sick Princess" from Jacob the Liar, first published at Aufbau Verlag 1969, copyright 1976 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; English-language translation copyright 1990, 2014 by Jurek Becker and Leila Vennewitz; “The Most Popular Family Story,” “The Suspect,” and “Romeo” copyright by 1980 by Suhrkamp Verlag; English-language translation copyright 2014 by Christine Becker; "The Invisible City" copyright 1996 by Suhrkamp Verlag; English-language translation copyright 2010, 2014 by Christine Becker; Introduction copyright 2014 by Christine Becker.

©2014 Suhrkamp Verlag (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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