A Jew Must Die

Informationen zum Autor Jacques Chessex, born in 1934, won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize for his novel L'Ogre. He is considered one of Switzerland's greatest authors, a novelist, poet, essayist and winner of the French Literature Grand Prix of the Académie Française. W.Donald Wilson is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is a translator of fiction and non-fiction from the French and his work includes titles by Yves Thériault and Jean Heffer. Klappentext The murder of a Jewish merchant in Switzerland during WWII told in a haunting novel. Zusammenfassung On April 16! 1942! a few days before Hitler's birthday! a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch! a Jewish cattle merchant! into a stable and kill him. Europe is in flames! but this is Switzerland! and Payerne! a rural market town of butchers and bankers! is more concerned with unemployment than the fate of nations across the border.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Chessex
• Assisted by: Donald Wilson (Translation), W. Donald Wilson (Translation)
• Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.01.2010
• EAN: 9781904738510
• ISBN: 978-1-904738-51-0
• No. of pages: 92
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 196 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Schweizer SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)