The Children on Rothschild Avenue
Novel
Bestselling author Stefanie Zweig describes the doomed decade of Frankfurt’sSternberg family.
The encroaching threat to their lives becomes a terrifying part of the day-to-day existence of a Jewish family in pre-war Frankfurt. With great sensitivity and painstaking attention to detail, Stefanie Zweig describes the years between 1926 and 1937, during which the Sternbergs are forced to accept there is no future for them in Germany. Along with their children and grandchildren, they have become social lepers – the Nazis have deprived them of their careers, security and, finally, their homeland. Zweig’s latest novel is a virtuoso work, containing not a trace of resentment but, instead, a strong dose of humour to relieve the suffering.
Stefanie Zweig was born in 1932 in Leobschütz, Upper Silesia. In 1938, her Jewish family was forced to flee to Africa to escape persecution by the Nazis. She spent her childhood on a farm in the Kenyan highlands, only returning to Germany with her family after the war, in 1947. Zweig’s novels remain in bestseller lists for months and have been translated into 15 languages.
Bestselling author Stefanie Zweig describes the doomed decade of Frankfurt’s
The encroaching threat to their lives becomes a terrifying part of the day-to-day existence of a Jewish family in pre-war Frankfurt. With great sensitivity and painstaking attention to detail, Stefanie Zweig describes the years between 1926 and 1937, during which the Sternbergs are forced to accept there is no future for them in Germany. Along with their children and grandchildren, they have become social lepers – the Nazis have deprived them of their careers, security and, finally, their homeland. Zweig’s latest novel is a virtuoso work, containing not a trace of resentment but, instead, a strong dose of humour to relieve the suffering.
Stefanie Zweig was born in 1932 in Leobschütz, Upper Silesia. In 1938, her Jewish family was forced to flee to Africa to escape persecution by the Nazis. She spent her childhood on a farm in the Kenyan highlands, only returning to Germany with her family after the war, in 1947. Zweig’s novels remain in bestseller lists for months and have been translated into 15 languages.
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