by Irene Dische · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433911636
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«Mentiras piadosas» is Irene Dische's collection of short stories, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (306 pages, in Spanish).
Seven stories featuring outcasts, emigrants and exiles surviving in New York and Berlin. Among them, an old man mistaken for Hitler by his grandchildren, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist living on fast food, a pathologist lost before a confessional, and a Jewish smuggler in postwar Berlin. With biting irony, the author portrays the contradictions and fragility of German Jewish identity after the Holocaust.
Volume 243 of the Panorama de narrativas collection, translated by Benito Gómez Ibáñez. Originally published in German as «Fromme Lügen», it was awarded the Jeanette-Schocken Prize and the prize of the German Critics' Union.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in stories with historical background, irony and unforgettable characters.
Irene Dische is an American-Austrian author, journalist, screenwriter, and librettist whose work explores the German-Jewish experience, alienation, and exile.
