Gotz And Meyer - Softcover

Albahari, David; Elias-Bursac, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156031108 ISBN 13: 9780156031103

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2006

Synopsis

Götz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, “not a big one,” but one that “requires efficiency.” Their task is to transport prisoners from a concentration camp near Belgrade in a hermetically sealed truck, in which they are asphyxiated. 
The nameless narrator of Götz and Meyer, a Jewish school­teacher, discovers Wilhelm Götz and Erwin Meyer while researching the deaths of his relatives. Overwhelmed by the horror of his discoveries as they become entangled with his own feverish imaginings, he organizes a class trip. The school bus becomes Götz and Meyer’s truck, and the teacher and his students merge with Belgrade’s lost souls in a sacred act of remembering.

About this title

Review:

"This is a heartbreaking book, sardonic and brutal, written at unrelenting pace with great compassion and wild humour." (The Independent)

"A triumph. A testament to the power of the imagination" (Daily Telegraph)

"Indisputably an exceptional novel" (Literary Review)

"A beautiful, soul-searching and genuinely tragi-comic novel" (Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

'A beautiful, soul-searching and genuinely tragi-comic novel' Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0156031108
• ISBN 13: 9780156031103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176