The Game of Cards

✍ Scribed by Schroder, Adolf

• Book ID: 110485356
• Publisher: Steerforth Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 409 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781908968739

✦ Synopsis

The young student Markus Hauser accepts a job with Selma Bruhns, an elderly Jewish lady who was able to escape the Nazis and the Holocaust only at a terrible cost. When Markus arrives at her decaying, darkened house infested by numerous cats, what unfolds is a story of risky gambles, desperate decisions, and unbearable regret
The task that Selma gives Markus is almost sisyphean: he has to arrange thousands of letters in chronological order, so that they can be burnt in that same order. For six days he works conscientiously. On his last day, Selma proposes a bargain: a game of cards that will change his life forever.
Written in the style of a detective novel, The Game of Cards (Das Kartenspiel) pieces together the puzzle of life fractured by war, and plunges the reader, along with the characters, into a strange and troubling world.

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