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"One of the best I've ever read." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary power . . . Comic . . .Tragic . . . A spellbinder." --The Washington Post "Earns four stars . . . A wonderful book . . . Read it, by all means, and give it to a friend." --San Francisco Chronicle "This novel hooks the reader on the first page and does not let go." --USAToday "Pain and laughter . . . The author had the genius to allow comedy to dominate this powerful story of struggle." --The Washington Book Review Dr. Josef Bernhardt, an anesthesiologist on the faculty of medicine at the University of Iowa, has tried his whole life to shut out the events of his youth in Berlin during the 1940s, but one incident in his operating room pulls him right back... It's 1943, and sixteen-year-old Josef has been invited to leave his family and take up residence at the Wilhelm Institute of Berlin. Half-Jewish, he is unable to attend his high school due to Nazi laws, but as a mathematical genius, he has gained access to an opportunity that will assumedly spare and support him and eight other "special cases." Though Josef is unable to forget about the war and the unknown fate of his family for the two years the Institute offers him sanity and safety, he and the others manage to discover friendship, love, and generosity within and between each other. They work side by side, under the direction of Professor Avilov (The Chief), on genetic experiments and nuclear research--quietly attempting to sabotage the war that is funding their work. Each day for two years, Josef fears that the dreamlike opportunity he has been dropped into might shatter, and that the nightmare of the genocide and war outside will infiltrate his safe haven. Berlin Wild is based on an astonishingly true story of survival.… (altro)
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I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. -------------Hamlet (I, 5)
If I were to tell you the truth I would have to lie. --------------The Chief
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For Peter my love
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On Tuesday, October 10, 1967, the day the surgical resident advertised him as the German who just came down from McGill, Dr. Josef Bernhardt realized he had been in a depression sine the end of the war.
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"One of the best I've ever read." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary power . . . Comic . . .Tragic . . . A spellbinder." --The Washington Post "Earns four stars . . . A wonderful book . . . Read it, by all means, and give it to a friend." --San Francisco Chronicle "This novel hooks the reader on the first page and does not let go." --USAToday "Pain and laughter . . . The author had the genius to allow comedy to dominate this powerful story of struggle." --The Washington Book Review Dr. Josef Bernhardt, an anesthesiologist on the faculty of medicine at the University of Iowa, has tried his whole life to shut out the events of his youth in Berlin during the 1940s, but one incident in his operating room pulls him right back... It's 1943, and sixteen-year-old Josef has been invited to leave his family and take up residence at the Wilhelm Institute of Berlin. Half-Jewish, he is unable to attend his high school due to Nazi laws, but as a mathematical genius, he has gained access to an opportunity that will assumedly spare and support him and eight other "special cases." Though Josef is unable to forget about the war and the unknown fate of his family for the two years the Institute offers him sanity and safety, he and the others manage to discover friendship, love, and generosity within and between each other. They work side by side, under the direction of Professor Avilov (The Chief), on genetic experiments and nuclear research--quietly attempting to sabotage the war that is funding their work. Each day for two years, Josef fears that the dreamlike opportunity he has been dropped into might shatter, and that the nightmare of the genocide and war outside will infiltrate his safe haven. Berlin Wild is based on an astonishingly true story of survival.