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Live bodies /

Gee, Maurice. 1931-

Live bodies / Maurice Gee. - Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 1998. - 264 pages ; 23 cm

Novel.

As a young man in the 1930s, Josef Mandl battles the Nazis on the streets of Vienna. Fleeing to New Zealand, he is interned as a dangerouos alien on Somes Island in Wellington harbour. After the war he becomes a successful businessman, a family patriarch. Now, in old age, he looks back, retracing his life.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 1998: Deutz Medal for Fiction. Montana Deutz Medal for Fiction 1998 Winner.

ISBN: 0140273808 9780140273809 0140280294 9780140280296

LCCN: 98221790

Subjects--Meeting Names:
World War (1939-1945)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jewish refugees--New Zealand--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--New Zealand--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
New Zealand fiction--20th century.
Psychological fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR9639.3.G4 / L58 1998

Dewey Class. No.: NZ823.2

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