Jerome Charyn: Cesare (UK 2020) From the Publisher: Canaris is a man of contradictions who, while serving the regime, seeks to undermine the Nazis and helps Cesare hide Berlin's Jews from the Gestapo. But the Nazis will lure many to Theresienstadt, a phony paradise in Czechoslovakia with sham restaurants, novelty shops, and bakeries, a cruel ghetto and way station to Auschwitz. When the woman Cesare loves, a member of the Jewish underground, is captured and sent there, Cesare must find a way to rescue her. Jerome Charyn: Cesare. A Novel of War-Torn Berlin. No Exit Press, ISBN: 9780857304377 (November, 2020), 352 p., £9.99, eBook £4.99.
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Jerome Charyn: Cesare (USA 2020) From the Publisher: Canaris is a man of contradictions who, while serving the regime, seeks to undermine the Nazis and helps Cesare hide Berlin's Jews from the Gestapo. But the Nazis will lure many to Theresienstadt, a phony paradise in Czechoslovakia with sham restaurants, novelty shops, and bakeries, a cruel ghetto and way station to Auschwitz. When the woman Cesare loves, a member of the Jewish underground, is captured and sent there, Cesare must find a way to rescue her. Cesare is a literary thriller and a love story born of the horrors of a country whose culture has died, whose history has been warped, and whose soul has disappeared. Jerome Charyn: Cesare. A Novel of War-Torn Berlin. Bellevue Literary Press, ISBN: 9781942658504 (January, 2020), 365 p., $26.99.
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