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by Jurek Becker Translated by Melvin Kornfeld Original title: Jakob der Lügner
Becker was a Jewish Pole who settled in East Germany and became a leading author there. Jakob the Liar is set in one of the ghettos created by the Nazis in occupied Poland by stuffing thousands of Jews into a barricaded part of a city with very little food and under various harsh regulations. (more...)