The Death of the Adversary

1930s Germany; the shadow of Nazism looms. Pictures of the new dictator, ''B.'', fill magazines and newspapers. Our hero is ten when his world begins to change dramatically. Suddenly, the other children won''t let him join in their games. Later, he is refused a job on a shop-floor. Later still, he hears youths boasting of an attack on a Jewish cemetery. Both hypnotised and horrified by his enemy, our hero chronicles the fear, anger and defiance of everyday life under tyranny. Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II, this novel is a powerful account of what he outlived. Painful, trenchant and streaked with dark humour The Death of the Adversary is a rediscovered masterpiece.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Keilson, Keilson Hans
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 08.01.2026
• EAN: 9781529961966
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-6196-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Germany, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary