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Heidegger's Glasses
Heidegger's Glasses
Author: Thaisa Frank
In her debut novel, Frank presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker where multi-lingual intellectuals, spared the concentration camps, spend the war answering letters sent to concentration camp inmates who are, in all likelihood, already dead; called the Compound of Scribes, its mission is part record-ke...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781582437194
ISBN-10: 158243719X
Publication Date: 11/1/2010
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Counterpoint
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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A trunk was filled w/mementos from the various scribes of the underground compound in Germany during World War II. The trunk later travels to a Russian refuge camp, across the Atlantic to New Jersey toa sister of one of the scribes relative. The relative begins to unfold stories and a historical writing from the mementos within the trunk. Her connection with a German who was involved during the war help the relative to put many of the mementos into a museum in Manhattan, New York relating to World War II. A compelling, at times horrifying writing of a historical era of time. A great read.


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