After

by Melvin Jules Bukiet

In this blackly humorous novel, reminiscent of "Catch-22," three ex-Holocaust prisoners join forces after their liberation to run a sleazy black-market operation in a German town.

Editions of After

	ISBN 9780312145361	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher St Martins Pr	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Very Good
	ISBN 9780312167608	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher St Martins Pr	Date 1997	Price $2.12	Used - Good

Publisher Notes

In 1945 the Allied forces are trekking across Europe, pausing incidentally to free the Jews from Hitler's camps. Newly emerged from the ashes, three ex-prisoners--a logician, a saint and a schemer--come together. Led by 19-year-old Isaac Kaufman, this trio joins forces in survival to exploit the only industry up and running in a crippled German town, the black market--until they discover and decide to steal a four foot cube: "18 tons of golden ingots created from the fillings pried from the teeth of the Jews of Eastern Europe".

Media Reviews

"Bukiet...draws on stories of his own family's survival of the death camps for this corrosive satirical novel of the Holocaust's aftermath....[D]espite the longueurs and the wildly uneven tone, those who persevere will find a conclusion that is surprisingly earnest, genuinely affecting and, largely because of what has gone before, deeply resonant."

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