The Oppermanns Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper in some ways almost documentary

in some ways almost documentary

but infinite food for thought

in the end

The Godwits Fly is unique

The war still casts its shadow and there is an atmosphere familiar to Persephone readers of the English middle-class being forced to adapt: just like the people in Mollie Panter-Downes’s 1950s short stories

The Oppermanns Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper in some ways almost documentaryTRANSLATED BY JAMES CLEUGH FOREWORD AND NOTES BY RICHARD J EVANS 534pp ISBN 9781910263266 Persephone Book No. 136 is a 1933 novel written to alert the world to the dangers of fascism. The Oppermanns describes an affluent Jewish family, and in particular three brothers, who run a successful chain of furniture shops, for eight months from the autumn of 1932 until June 1933. The reader watches in horror as a law abiding, kindly, civilised Jewish family,