Comedy in a Minor Key (Hardcover)

from Hebephrene

It is a minor key but a deceptively good book. Keilson gives you a smooth surface. The dutch couple - bourgeois and given to ritual housekeeping - take in a Jew during WW2. It is only in the final third - and its a short book - that you realize what he is doing. Its a Russian doll with irony nest...

from pnorman4345

This novel is about a young couple in a small Dutch city hide a Jew in their hose during WWII. Their ' guest ' dies of pneumonia and , due to carelessness . they must go into hiding. The story is of how they come to understand a bit the psychological trauma of their guest.

from jack2410

The couple in this story are ordinary people, not energetic resistance fighters. This little book will help you experience the tension and the fear and adjustments in living associated with sheltering a Jewish refugee in your home in occupied Europe during the Second World War.

from lkernagh

Originally published in 1947 and only recently translated into English, this short novella tells the story of an ordinary couple in a small town in German occupied southern Holland - Wim and Marie - who hide a Jew in their home during World War II for a number of months and then must later secret...

from labfs39

This is the second the of the three novels written by Hans Keilson, a German Jew who escaped Germany in 1936 and joined the Dutch Resistance. His parents refused to go into hiding and were deported to Auschwitz where they were murdered. Hans did spend time in hiding, and this book reflects his un...