AFTER DACHAU: A Novel - Softcover

Daniel Quinn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581952155 ISBN 13: 9781581952155

Publisher: STEERFORTH PRESS, 2006

Synopsis

Daniel Quinn once again turns the tables and creates an 'otherworld' that is very like this one, yet fascinating beyond words. Imagine that Nazi Germany had been the first to develop the atomic bomb and the Allies surrendered. America was never invaded, bombed or occupied, but was forced nonetheless to acknowledge Nazi world dominance. Eventually the world is bred to be entirely Aryan. Now imagine that reincarnation of the soul is a reality and that the soul of an Black African woman who lived during World War II has come back to reassert herself...

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Review:

"Damning and damnably elegant." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Provocative, Orwellian .... [an]absorbing cautionary tale." -- Publishers Weekly

"Hairpin plot twists that spin wildly from mass genocide to the rediscovery of abstract expressionism.... After Dachau is a rare moral thriller in the tradition of Fahrenheit 451." -- Village Voice Literary Supplement

"A ghostly and subtle thriller/fantasia/parable about (more or less) how we conceive of history, identity, time. Think Brave New World." -- Esquire Magazine

"Quinn's powerful writing style consistently impresses, as does his talent for creating suspense." -- Rocky Mountain News

"Entertaining... A taut, gripping, sinister, and often fun book." -- Hartford Courant

Synopsis:

Daniel Quinn, best-known for his bestseller "Ishmael", once again turns the tables and creates an otherworld that is very like our own, yet fascinating beyond words. In this other world, Nazi Germany was the first to develop an atomic bomb and the Allies surrendered. America was never bombed, occupied, or even invaded, but was nonetheless forced to recognize Nazi world dominance. The Nazis continued to press their campaign to rid the planet of "mongrel races" until eventually the world - from Cape Town to Tokyo - was populated by only white faces. Two thousand years in the future people don't remember, or much care, about this distant past. The reality is that to be human is to be Caucasian, and what came before was literally ancient history having nothing to do with those living. Imagine that reincarnation is real, that souls migrate over time from one living creature to another, and that a soul that once animated an American black woman living at the time of World War II now animates an Aryan in Quinn's new world, and that due to a traumatic accident memories of this earlier incarnation assert itself.

Compared by readers and critics alike to "1984" and "Brave New World", "After Dachau" is the new dystopian classic with much to say about the present day, and the dynamics of human history.

About this edition

• Publisher: STEERFORTH PRESS
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1581952155
• ISBN 13: 9781581952155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240