The Kaminsky Cure

By Christopher New

Willibald Brinkmann, a Lutheran pastor, has more than a sneaking admiration for Hitler, something his Jewish wife Gabi is unable to share. It's 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 Gabi's 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 Brinkmann's fight to keep her family alive in a world determined to destroy them. 'A masterly work, one that can stand proudly alongside Günter Grass's The Tin Drum' Moris Farhi 'A child's-eye view makes delusion and hypocrisy shockingly stark … well researched and entertaining.' Guardian 'An extravaganza of colourful characters' Washington Post

• Language: English
• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Release date: Jan 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9780863564970

Christopher New

Christopher New was born in England and educated at Oxford and Princeton. He is the author of many books, among them The China Coast Trilogy, a New York Times bestseller, Shanghai, The Chinese Box, and A Change of Flag. These novels have been described as “the definitive account of the British Presence in furthest Asia", and “a literary feat of the highest quality,” and have been widely translated. Formerly the head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Hong Kong, Christopher New is the author of The Philosophy of Literature. He divides his time between Bankok and Berlin.