Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch & One Family’s Secret History
Author: PUCHNER MARTIN
Format: HARDCOVER
Imprint: GRANTA
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Since the Middle Ages, vagrants and thieves in Central Europe have spoken Rotwelsch, a secret language influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs. When Martin Puchner inherited a family archive, it led him on a journey into this extraordinary language but also into his family’s connections to the Nazi Party, for whom Rotwelsch held a particular significance.
A riveting story of the mindset and milieu of Central Europe and of the way language can be used to evade oppression, The Language of Thieves is also a deeply moving reckoning with a family’s buried past.
ISBN: 9781783786404
Dimension: 216mm X 138mm
Pages: 288