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Comedy in a Minor Key

Hans Keilson

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#2634 of 8,085 books · #1157 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2010).

A Dutch couple hide a Jewish perfume merchant in their home during World War II in this classic dark comedy novella. A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners— Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, originally published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best: deeply ironic, penetrating, sympathetic, and brilliantly modern, as heir to Joseph Roth and Franz Kafka.

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Publisher
Macmillan + ORM
ISBN-13
9781429980241
Genre
Fiction
Topics
World War II resistanceHiding a Jewish refugeeMoral courage under occupation

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