A Jew must die, Jacques Chessex ; translated from the French by W. Donald Wilson
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A Jew must die, Jacques Chessex ; translated from the French by W. Donald Wilson
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A Jew must die
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Jacques Chessex ; translated from the French by W. Donald Wilson
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On April 16, 1942, a few days before Hitler's birthday, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into a stable and kill him with an iron bar. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural market town of butchers and bankers, is more concerned with unemployment and local bankruptcies than the fate of nations across the border. Fernand Ischi, leader of the local Nazi cell, blames everything on the Jews and Bloch's murder is to be an example, a foretaste of what is to come once the Nazis take over Switzerland. Jacques Chessex, winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, was a child in Payerne. He knew the murderers and sat next to Ischi's children in school. He has written a terse, implacable story that has awakened memories in a country that seems to endlessly rediscover dark areas of its past
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- World War, 1939-1945 + Social aspects -- Switzerland -- Fiction
- Switzerland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- French fiction
- Suisse -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Aspect social -- Suisse -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- French fiction -- Translations into English
- Nazis -- Switzerland -- Fiction
- Jews -- Switzerland -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Nazis -- Suisse -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Payerne (Switzerland) -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
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- World War, 1939-1945 + Social aspects -- Switzerland -- Fiction
- Switzerland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- French fiction
- Suisse -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Aspect social -- Suisse -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- French fiction -- Translations into English
- Nazis -- Switzerland -- Fiction
- Jews -- Switzerland -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Nazis -- Suisse -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Payerne (Switzerland) -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
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