The Prince of West End Avenue
Alan Isler
#3492 of 8,085 books · #1755 in Fiction
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1994).
The Prince of West End Avenue won the National Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet. But for our hero, Otto Korner more is at stake than simply directing his quirky, libidinous fellow residents in the play. Somebody knows Otto's secret, and as comedy and tragedy combine he is transported back to his pre-American past in Germany, Zurich, and finally, Auschwitz.
- Publisher
- Random House
- ISBN-13
- 9781446484784
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Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1994)
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