The Death of the AdversaryHans KeilsonLabel: Vintage ClassicsDescription: 1930s Germany; the shadow of Nazism looms. Pictures of the new dictator 'B.' fill magazines and newspapers. Our hero is ten when his world begins to change dramatically. Suddenly the other children won't let him join in their games. Later he is refused a job on a shop-floor. Later still he hears youths boasting of an attack on a Jewish cemetery. Both hypnotised and horrified by his enemy our hero chronicles the fear anger and defiance of everyday life under tyranny.Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II this novel is a powerful account of what he outlived. Painful trenchant and streaked with dark humour The Death of the Adversary is a rediscovered masterpiece.
