The German lesson.
Original title: Deutschstunde
earliest edition we have, 1971 Macdonald, 1971 470 pages
Wen xue guan Quill — book 4
Siggi Jepsen (the first-person narrator), an inmate of a juvenile detention center, is forced to write an essay with the title "The Joy of Duty." In the essay, Siggi describes his youth in Nazi Germany where his father, the "most northerly police officer in Germany," does his duty, even when he is ordered to debar his old childhood friend, the expressionist painter Max Nansen, from his profession, because the Nazis b...
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