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The story of two Germans, a Jew whose life was stolen and the onetime Nazi who stole it. The narrator is an ethnographer famous for his work on the Indians of Brazil. The story opens as he receives a letter from the Jew whom he thought dead and whose book he plagiarized during World War II. At the age of 80, the professor's life is about to be exposed as a big lie. By the author of The Man in the Tower.
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3 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 1994G. Braziller · 203 pages · 9780807613634
- Other · English · 1994Quartet · 203 pages · 9780704370845
- Other · German · 1993Residenz · 166 pages · 9783701708130
FictionPlagiarismAnthropologistsNew York Times reviewedAnthropologists, fictionFiction, general