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Informationen zum Autor Charles Lewinsky studied German literature and theatre studies in Zurich and Berlin. Among the numerous novels that he has written, he received the Schiller Prize Zürcher Kantonalbank for his novel St. John's (2001) and was nominated for the 2011 Swiss Book Prize for Gerron (2012). He lives in Zurich and the French Vereux. Klappentext 1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen! a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life! rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the doorstep stands his young distant cousin! Janki! half-dead and begging for refuge. The pitiful figure is invited in and given a coveted place in the bosom of the family! but when Janki recovers and regains his ambition and his fine-looks! he will change the Meijer family's lives for generations to come... In the tradition of the great family romances of the nineteenth century! Melnitz is the saga of the Swiss-Jewish Meijer family! spanning five generations from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II. It is a novel of fate! fortune and great falls; a homage to the sunken world of yiddish culture and a celebration of the enduring spirit of biting Jewish humour. The international-bestelling saga of a large and colourful Jewish family buffeted from quiet respectability-of-sorts in 1871 to the Nazi death camps of 1945 Zusammenfassung The international-bestelling saga of a large and colourful Jewish family buffeted from quiet respectability-of-sorts in 1871 to the Nazi death camps of 1945
