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"Well, here I am at five and three quarters. It's Christmas 1939 in a little Austrian village in Hitler's Third Reich and I'm just beginning to notice things. Like what my brothers and sisters are about and why my parents are often crying and my father usually shouting when he isn't crying. I think it has something to do with the war we're fighting, which according to the wireless is due to The International Jewish Conspiracy, whatever that is, but that's not all. I don't know it yet, but I was born at the wrong time and in the wrong place." Thus begins the innocent narration of The Kaminsky Cure, a poignant yet comedic novel of a half Jewish/half Christian family caught up in the machinery of Hitler's final solution. The matriarch, Gabi, was born Jewish but converted to Christianity in her teens. The patriarch, Willibald, is a Luthern minister who, on one hand is a proud Aryan, but on the other hand, the conflicted father of children who are half-Jewish. Mindful and resentful of her husband's ambivalence, Gabi is determined to make sure her children are educated, devising schemes to keep them in school even after learning that any child less than 100% Aryan will eventually be kept from completing education. She even hires tutors who are willing to teach half-Jewish children and in this way comes to hire Fraulein Kaminsky who shows Gabi how to cure her frustration and rage: to keep her mouth filled with water until the urge to scream or rant has passed.

About the Author :
Christopher New was born in England and educated at Oxford and Princeton. He is the author of many books, among them The China Coast Trilogy, a New York Times bestseller, Shanghai, The Chinese Box, and A Change of Flag. These novels have been described as "the definitive account of the British Presence in furthest Asia", and "a literary feat of the highest quality," and have been widely translated. Formerly the head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Hong Kong, Christopher New is the author of The Philosophy of Literature. He divides his time between Bankok and Berlin.

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"The Jewish mother Gabi, a tempest of energy that exhausts while it saves...Sara, the burdened, responsible child...the local Nazi official, more ambitious than vicious...the housekeeper, obstinate and loyal...Christopher New brings them to life."--Literary Review "The Tin Drum meets Life Is Beautiful in this tragicomic, one-of-a-kind novel."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This beautifully rendered novel of WWII, "seen through a child's eye, makes delusion and hypocrisy shockingly stark."--The Guardian


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781883285678
  • Publisher: Delphinium Books, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Delphinium Books, Inc
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • ISBN-10: 1883285674
  • Publisher Date: 12 Apr 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 320


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