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As a young man in the 1930s, Josef Mandl battles the Nazis on the streets of Vienna. Fleeing to New Zealand, he is interned as a dangerouos alien on Somes Island in Wellington harbour. After the war he becomes a successful businessman, a family patriarch. Now, in old age, he looks back, retracing his life.
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2 editions- Other · English · 1998Faber and Faber · 264 pages · 9780571194780
- Other · English · 1998Penguin Books (NZ) · 264 pages · 9780140273809
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