by Irene Dische · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423135214
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«Großmama packt aus» is the novel by Irene Dische, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (378 pages, in German).
The author gives voice to her grandmother Elisabeth, Mops, who reviews with irony and no holds barred the family history: her marriage to Carl, a Jew converted to Catholicism, the flight to the United States, the brothers who embraced Nazism and the relatives who died in concentration camps. A German-American saga with biting humor.
The original title of the work is «The Empress of Weehawken»; Reinhard Kaiser translated it into German. First edition in December 2006; number 13521 of the dtv collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and family sagas who appreciate black humor and stories with a historical background.
Irene Dische is an American-Austrian author, journalist, screenwriter, and librettist whose work explores the German-Jewish experience, alienation, and exile.
