Fredy Neptune

Les A. Murray

earliest edition we have, 1998 Carcanet Press, 1998 paperback 264 pages

When German-Australian sailor Friedrich "Fredy" Boettcher is shanghied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his sense of touch. This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse during much of his life, as he orbits the high horror and low humor o...

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Fredy Neptune audiobook · 2000 · Louis Braille Audio · 9780732022013
Fredy Neptune edition · 1999 · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 255 pages
Fredy Neptune paperback · 1998 · Carcanet Press · 264 pages · 9781857543377

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