Tales of the Master Race: A Novel - Hardcover

Hershman, Marcie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060166444 ISBN 13: 9780060166441

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1991

Synopsis

First-person accounts of the residents of Kreiswald--among them a police clerk force to measure the heads of local townspeople destined for the guillotine and a stroke victim who witnesses the secret nocturnal deportation of Jews--reveal how the Nazis' plan was carried out

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REVIEWS of TALES OF THE MASTER RACE
"It seems the achievement of a lifetime...Hershman has such control, such delicacy, such fury and such power that it is hard to believe this is a first novel."--Geoffrey Stokes, THE BOSTON GLOBE

"A powerful attempt to understand thephenomenon of the 'good German' through the process of imaginative sympathy....A searing portrait of the consequences of moral laziness and self-absorption."-- Michiko Kakutani, THE NEW YORK TIMES.

An audacious and imaginative attempt to understand the incomprehensible....TALES OF THE MASTER RACE turns into a novel as bricks become a wall, every small segment essential to the ultimate design." -- LOS ANGELES TIMES.

"An outstanding debut." -- PEOPLE magazine.

"A work of horrifying impact...An important, disturbing first novel." --BOOKLIST.

"In understated prose and through creative insights, the terror of living under the swastika is perfectly limned...Her novel is an extraordinary artistic achievement." --THE FORWARD.

From HarperCollins: "Marcie Hershman's haunting TALES OF THE MASTER RACE circles the streets of Kreiswald, an imaginary town in Germany, during the crucial years of the Third Reich. It takes us inside th lives of "ordinary" German citizens--Aryan men and women--marking the subtle and more overt alterations brought about by the Nazi regime. In a series of interlinked stories with overlapping characters, a devastating portrait emerges of the chance effects on everyday existence of prejudice, mass deportation, murder, and war.

Now in its 5th printing; taught at universities and public schools across the U.S.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0060166444
• ISBN 13: 9780060166441
• Binding: Hardcover