A critical and commercial success in German, Kahn & Engelmann tells
the story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary, their immigration to
Vienna in the great days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, their loves,
business ventures and failings, and their eventual tragic destruction.
Narrated by Peter Engelmann, who wishes only to forget his past, this
highly original novel recreates a vanished Vienna with salty humour and
humanity. In a voice which is appealing without being sentimental, Peter
describes his escape from the Nazis through snowy woods, his attempts to
start a new life in England and Canada, and his decision to immigrate to
Israel. Written by an eminent scholar, himself a survivor of Nazism,
Kahn & Engelmann is both an entertaining novel and a major work of
Holocaust literature.