| Willibald Brinkmann, a Lutheran pastor, has more than a sneaking admiration for Hitler, something his Jewish wife Gabi is unable to share. Its 1933 when the Brownshirts tell Willibald to go find another twig to perch on, and he loses no time abandoning his prestigious Berlin parish. Humiliated and resentful, Willibald finds refuge in the tiny village of Heimstatt high in the Austrian Alps, where Gabis last child and narrator of the story is born. Then the Nazis arrive in Austria. Gabi struggles to protect her family against the ever-tightening vice of persecution and the remorseless approach of the Final Solution. Terrifying yet darkly humorous, The Kaminsky Cure is the story of Gabi Brinkmanns fight to keep her family alive in a world determined to destroy them. A masterly work, one that can stand proudly alongside Gnter Grasss The Tin Drum Moris Farhi A childs-eye view makes delusion and hypocrisy shockingly stark well researched and entertaining. Guardian 'An extravaganza of colourful characters' Washington Post |
