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Lies, first person / Gail Hareven ; translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publisher: Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 370 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1940953030
  • 9781940953038
Uniform titles:
  • Sheḳarim ha-aḥaronim shel ha-guf. English
Subject(s): Summary: Elinor's estranged uncle is coming to Jerusalem to give a speech asking forgiveness for his decades-old book, Hitler, First Person, an attempt to understand what it would have been like to be Hitler. While writing this controversial novel, Gotthilf stayed in Elinor's parent's house and sexually assaulted her "slow" sister. Now Elinor is building up the courage to avenge her sister in the most conclusive way possible: by murdering Gotthilf, her own personal Hitler.Subject: "Elinor's comfortable life --popular newspaper column, stable marriage, well-adjusted kids --is totally upended when she finds out that her estranged uncle is coming to Jerusalem to give a speech asking forgiveness for his decades-old book, Hitler, First Person. A shocking novel that galvanized the Jewish diaspora. Hitler, First Person, was Aaron Gotthilf's attempt to understand --and explain --what it would have been like to be Hitler. As if that isn't disturbing enough, while writing this controversial novel, Gotthilf stayed in Elinor's parent's house and sexually assaulted her "slow" sister." -- P. [4] of cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Elinor's comfortable life - popular newspaper column, stable marriage, well-adjusted kids - is totally upended when she finds out that her estranged uncle is coming to Jerusalem to give a speech asking forgiveness for his decades-old book, Hitler, First Person. A shocking novel that galvanized the Jewish diaspora, it was Aaron Gotthilf's attempt to understand and explain what it would have been like to be Hitler. While writing this controversial novel, Gotthilf stayed in Elinor's parent's house and sexually assaulted her sister. Now she wants to avenge her sister.

"From the winner of the 2010 Best Translated Book Award".

Elinor's estranged uncle is coming to Jerusalem to give a speech asking forgiveness for his decades-old book, Hitler, First Person, an attempt to understand what it would have been like to be Hitler. While writing this controversial novel, Gotthilf stayed in Elinor's parent's house and sexually assaulted her "slow" sister. Now Elinor is building up the courage to avenge her sister in the most conclusive way possible: by murdering Gotthilf, her own personal Hitler.

"Elinor's comfortable life --popular newspaper column, stable marriage, well-adjusted kids --is totally upended when she finds out that her estranged uncle is coming to Jerusalem to give a speech asking forgiveness for his decades-old book, Hitler, First Person. A shocking novel that galvanized the Jewish diaspora. Hitler, First Person, was Aaron Gotthilf's attempt to understand --and explain --what it would have been like to be Hitler. As if that isn't disturbing enough, while writing this controversial novel, Gotthilf stayed in Elinor's parent's house and sexually assaulted her "slow" sister." -- P. [4] of cover.

Translated from the Hebrew.

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