The Devil in Vienna (Puffin story books) - Softcover

Orgel, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014032500X ISBN 13: 9780140325003

Publisher: Puffin, 1988

Synopsis

A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school, but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.

About this title

About the Author:

Doris Orgel is a children's book author born in Vienna, Austria February 15, 1929. Her book The Devil in Vienna received a Phoenix Award Honor in 1998, and her books Sarah's Room and Dwarf Long-Nose were illustrated by Hans Christian Andersen Award winning illustrator Maurice Sendak. She has also translated children's books from German to English. Two of her translations, Nero Corleone: a Cat's Story by Elke Heidenreich and Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz, are Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Books, the award recognizing outstanding translated children's books.

Synopsis:

Inge Dornewald and Lieselotte Vessely are best friends, the kind of friends who almost always know what the other is thinking. Now, however, they are both thirteen and it is 1937 in Vienna. Inge is Jewish and Lieselotte, at the insistence of her Nazi father, is in the Hitler Youth. Their friendship has become unwise, even dangerous to sustain. Yet in a world of increasing terror and despair, as the situation of Jews in Austria becomes more and more desperate, Inge and Lieselotte secretly struggle against the 'Devil in Vienna' to keep their friendship alive.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 014032500X
• ISBN 13: 9780140325003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256