Der eher unscheinbare Jakob wird durch eine Lüge über Nacht zum Helden. Eine Lüge die langsam anfängt, doch dann Ausmaße annimmt die Jakob nicht verkraften kann. Jakob schafft Hoffnung in einer nahezu auswegslosen Situation, aber zu welchem Preis?
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In the ghetto, possession of a radio is punishable by death. Like thousands of his fellow prisoners, Jacob Heym is cut off from all news of the war--until he is arrested one evening and brought to the German military office, where he overhears a report of the Red Army's advance to a city some 300 miles away. Miraculously, he is allowed to return to his quarters, but when he tries to spread the good news, the only way to make people believe him is to tell a lie: "How do I know? I have a radio." One lie leads to another, and before long Jacob finds himself feeding the entire ghetto fabricated news reports of the Russians' advance--reports that save lives by giving people renewed hope. So Jacob is a hero and a liar. But how much longer can his web of lies hold? Told with suspense and humor, here is a masterful tale of hope, desire, and the life-giving force of fiction. Awarded Germany's prestigious Heinrich Mann Prize for fiction and in a new translation by Leila Vennewitz, Jacob the Liar is a masterpiece of Kafkaesque comedy which unfolds with the impact of a timeless folk legend. This edition includes a new afterword by Louis Begley
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Jacob the Liar: A Novel--50th Anniversary Edition, Jurek Becker
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Jurek Becker
- Verlag
- ARCADE PUB
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 264
- ISBN10
- 1951627040
- ISBN13
- 9781951627041
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Klassiker, Deutsche Literatur, Kriegsliteratur, Kriege, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Schule, Juden, Holocaust, Nazismus, Hoffnung, Lügen, Drittes Reich (Nazi-Deutschland), 1933-1945, Radio, Ghetto
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- In the ghetto, possession of a radio is punishable by death. Like thousands of his fellow prisoners, Jacob Heym is cut off from all news of the war--until he is arrested one evening and brought to the German military office, where he overhears a report of the Red Army's advance to a city some 300 miles away. Miraculously, he is allowed to return to his quarters, but when he tries to spread the good news, the only way to make people believe him is to tell a lie: "How do I know? I have a radio." One lie leads to another, and before long Jacob finds himself feeding the entire ghetto fabricated news reports of the Russians' advance--reports that save lives by giving people renewed hope. So Jacob is a hero and a liar. But how much longer can his web of lies hold? Told with suspense and humor, here is a masterful tale of hope, desire, and the life-giving force of fiction. Awarded Germany's prestigious Heinrich Mann Prize for fiction and in a new translation by Leila Vennewitz, Jacob the Liar is a masterpiece of Kafkaesque comedy which unfolds with the impact of a timeless folk legend. This edition includes a new afterword by Louis Begley