Weil Jiří: Mendelssohn Is on the Roof

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Mendelssohn Is on the Roof - Ji?í Weil. On the roof of Prague's concert hall, Julius Schlesinger, aspiring SS officer, is charged with the removal of the statue of the Jew Mendelssohn--but which one is he? Remembering his course on "racial science," Schlesinger instructs his men to pull down the statue with the biggest nose. Only as the statue topples does he recognize the face of Richard Wagner. This is just the beginning in Weil's novel, which traces the transformation of ordinary liveds in Nazi-occupied Prague. Mendelssohn Is on the Roof - Ji?í Weil od nakladatelství Daunt Books v kategorii | English literature za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Knihydobrovsky.cz Full of dark humour and bitter irony, this moving novel traces the transformation of ordinary lives during the Nazi occupation of Prague. Weil is a neglected master of European literature, and this is one of only two of his novels to be translated into English.