To Zenzi

To Zenzi
Robert L Shuster
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Paperback
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13 May 2021 US
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9781936970698
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To Zenzi is the extraordinary story of Tobias Koertig' s odyssey through the apocalypse of Berlin in 1945. An orphaned thirteen-year-old who loves to draw, Tobias is coerced into joining the German youth army in the last desperate weeks of the war. Mistaken for a hero on the Eastern Front, he receives an Iron Cross from Hitler himself, who discovers the boy' s cartoons and appoints Tobias to sketch pictures of the ruined city. Shuttling between the insanity of the Fuhrer' s bunker and the chaotic streets, Tobias must contend with a scheming Martin Bormann, a deceitful deserter, the Russian onslaught, and his own compounding despair-all while falling for Zenzi, a girl of Jewish descent (a mischling) who relays secret news of death camps and convinces Tobias to make a treacherous escape to the Americans. With thrilling risks in plotting and prose, with moments of pathos and absurdity, Shuster richly conjures a mad, tragic world.
"This miraculous coming-of-age novel is set against a backdrop of death and destruction as Berlin falls to the allied forces in 1945, but it manages to be more adventure than war story. Part Billy Pilgrim, part Huckleberry Finn, part Candide, our picaresque protagonist is a thirteen-year-old boy, orphaned and drafted into the disintegrating German army, stoutly enduring the insults of his position, finding a way to survive (at times even thrive) by negotiating the rubble and human ruins of Hitler' s crumbling empire. To Zenzi is a tragic story brilliantly and seamlessly told, full of love, humor, and hope. "-- "Bonnie Jo Campbell"
Robert L. Shuster' s short fiction has appeared in North American Review, Witness, the Mississippi Review, and Stone Canoe, among other publications, and in the anthologies Micro Fiction and Yellow Silk II. For a number of years, Shuster wrote arts and culture pieces for The Village Voice. Shuster lives in Westchester County, New York.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781936970698
Published: 13 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press
Publisher: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 8mm
Width: 5mm
Pages: 344

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