Soul of Wood

by Jakov Lind

Book Overview

Soul of Wood made Jakov Lind's reputation as one of the most boldy imaginative postwar writers and it remains his most celebrated achievement. In the title novella and six subsequent stories, Lind distorts and refashions reality to make the deepest horrors of the twentieth century his own. Set during World War II, "Soul of Wood" is the story of Wohlbrecht, a peg-legged veteran of World War I, who smuggles Anton Barth, a paralyzed Jewish boy, to a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809015269
• ISBN13: 9780809015269
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.