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      The Tortoises

      by Veza Canetti
      Published
      Oct 2001
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      256
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      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.

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      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical

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      Jul 2007 New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN13 9780811216968 ISBN10 0811216969
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      Oct 2001 New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN13 9780811214681 ISBN10 0811214680
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