The German Lesson
480 pages |Ā Paperback
In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the āThe Joys of Duty.ā Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his ādegenerateā work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. āI was trying to find out,ā Lenz says, āwhere the joys of duty could lead a people.ā
Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
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$6.98The German Lesson
480 pages |Ā Paperback
In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the āThe Joys of Duty.ā Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his ādegenerateā work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. āI was trying to find out,ā Lenz says, āwhere the joys of duty could lead a people.ā
Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
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480 pages |Ā Paperback
In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the āThe Joys of Duty.ā Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his ādegenerateā work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. āI was trying to find out,ā Lenz says, āwhere the joys of duty could lead a people.ā
Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
