Gotz & Meyer - Softcover

Albahari, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099542382 ISBN 13: 9780099542384

Publisher: Vintage, 2009

Synopsis

Believing they were being taken to a better camp, Belgrade's Jews would climb into the truck with a sense of relief. Mainly women, children and the elderly, they expected a long and uncomfortable trip but, after crossing the border, their journey would come to an abrupt end. Here the drivers would get out and attach a hose from the exhaust to the back of the truck-Over the course of a few months in 1942 the Nazis systematically exterminated the majority of Serbia's Jews using carbon monoxide and specially designed trucks. The only information the narrator of this bleakly comic novel can find about the summer when his relatives disappeared is the names of the truck drivers: G-tz and Meyer. During his research he becomes fascinated by the unknowable characters and daily lives of these men. But his imagination proves a dangerous force, and his obsession with the past threatens to overwhelm him.

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: Vintage
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0099542382
• ISBN 13: 9780099542384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176