The Prince of West End Avenue
Alan Isler
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9781446484784
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Holocaust memory and traumaAging and community in a retirement homeTheater and identity
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1994)
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