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Jurek Becker

Works by Jurek Becker
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Sleepless Days [Buy Direct]
by Jurek Becker
Translated by L Vennewitz
Original title: Schlaflose Tage
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Jacob the Liar [Buy Direct]
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...)
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Five Stories [Buy Direct]
by Jurek Becker



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