Binding: Paperback
Description: There was a time when the family K nstler lived in the fairy - tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed the fairy tale into a nightmare and in 1939 the K nstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles California United States of America. For years Mamie K nstler ninety - three years old as clever and glamorous as ever has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice California with her inscrutable housekeeper and her gigantic St. Bernard. Their tranquility is upended when Mamie's grandson Julian arrives from New York City. Like many a twentysomething he has come to seek his fortune in Hollywood. But it is 2020, the global pandemic sweeps in and Julian's short visit suddenly has no end in sight. Mamie was only eleven when the K nstlers escaped Vienna in 1939. They made their way stunned and overwhelmed to sunny surreal Los Angeles where they joined a colony of distinguished Jewish musicians writers and intellectuals also escaping Hitler. Now faced with months of lockdown and a willing listener Mamie begins to tell Julian the buried stories of her years in Los Angeles: her escapades with eminent migr's like Arnold Schoenberg Christopher Isherwood Thomas Mann. Oh and Greta Garbo. While the pandemic cuts Julian off from the life he knows Mamie's tales open up a world of lives that came before him. They reveal to him just how much the past holds of the future.
Title: Kunstlers In Paradise
Author(s): Schine Cathleen
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
Barcode: 9781250892492
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 3/12/2024
Category: Historical Fiction