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Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, in one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on the 'The Joys of Duty.'Overfamiliar with these 'joys, ' Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, constable of the northernmost police station in Germany, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist, their neighbor, from paintings to keep them safe from his father.
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The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- The German Lesson
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Siegfried Lenz
- Publisher
- Norton & Company
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN10
- 0811222012
- ISBN13
- 9780811222013
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Art, Classics, German Literature, Military Fiction, Germany, Wars, Teens, Nazism, Post-War Era
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, in one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on the 'The Joys of Duty.'Overfamiliar with these 'joys, ' Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, constable of the northernmost police station in Germany, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist, their neighbor, from paintings to keep them safe from his father.