Kokoschka's doll
Cruz, Afonso, 1971-2021
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When Oskar Kokoschka's affair with Alma Mahler ended, the Austrian painter commissioned a life-sized doll in her image. Rather than keep his peccadillo secret, Kokoschka paraded with the doll through the town. But one day he grows tired of it, smashes a bottle of red wine over its head and throws it out. Years later it comes to play a role in the fate of a group of citizens who survived the thousands of tons of bombs that fell on Dresden during the Second World War. They include Isaac Dresner, a Jew who developed a limp in his left leg after he was burdened with the memory of his best friend being killed in front of him during the war; Bonifaz Vogel, a man who lives with a suspended conscience; Tsilia Kacev, an Orthodox Jew who is marked by the stigmata; and Zsigmond Varga, a millionaire whose dream is to find a method to weigh the human soul, measuring evil and sin with a hydraulic scale.
Main title:
Kokoschka's doll / Afonso Cruz ; translated by Angel Gurria-Quintana, Rahul Bery.
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Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2021.
Collation:
272 pages
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.
ISBN:
9781529402698 (pbk)
Dewey class:
869.35
LC class:
PQ9303.R89
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
BRN:
2765836