1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee)
A comedy set in a Jewish old people's home in New York. The story follows Otto who is directing his fellow residents in a chaotic production of "Hamlet". He reminisces on his past in Germany and Zurich (where he met Lenin and inadvertently invented Dada), Auschwitz and America.
Genre: General Fiction
Genre: General Fiction
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