Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations

By Robin Hirsch

Book Overview

Robin Hirsch was born in London during the Blitz, to German Jews who had escaped Hitler. Coming of age in postwar England with German-speaking parents, he learned very quickly the ironies of survival... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874517133
• ISBN13: 9780874517132
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

touching and hilarious memoir

Hirsch's account of growing up German Jewish in England is wonderful - while his story is often laugh out loud funny, it remains a thoughtful exploration of the repercussions of the Holocaust and the pain in growing up with a difficult father. After Hirsch sets out on adulthood, his own story is not as compelling, but his encounters with elderly Holocaust survivors, as well as his attempts to come to terms with his father, are still fascinating.