Live bodies

Description:

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.

subjects: Holocaust survivors in fiction,  Jews,  Jews in fiction,  Austrians,  Austrians in fiction,  World War, 1939-1945 in fiction,  Holocaust survivors,  Fiction,  Jewish men,  Concentration camp inmates in fiction,  Jewish men in fiction,  World War, 1939-1945,  New Zealand in fiction,  Concentration camp inmates,  Jewish refugees,  Refugees,  Concentration camps,  New Zealand fiction

Places: New Zealand