Friday, May 06, 2011

Comedy In a Minor Key - Hans Keilson

















Comedy in a Minor Key - Hans Keilson (2010)

Wim and Marie are a quiet Dutch couple who agree to hide a jewish man Nico in their spare room.  After a year of hiding, he falls ill and dies, and the couple are left with trying to get rid of the body in their occupied town.

A small novella, its own author was German Jew who hid in Holland during the war, this book was first published in 1947, but has only now been translated into English at the time of the authors 100th birthday.

3/5

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