It's written as if everything that happens is normal - there's none of the hyperbole language of many modern holocaust novels. We get the perspectives of both the persecutors and the persecuted. It aims at giving the big picture of life in Prague during the Nazi occupation. It's a brilliant mockery of the mindless insanity of racial hatred. However, this is Wagner, the Third Reich's favourite composer. Consensus is it must be the one with the biggest nose. Initially no one can work out which of the many statues is Mendelssohn. Thus the novel begins and will enter the minds and lives of the various people who are directly and indirectly involved in the saga of the statue. When Reinhard Heydrich attends a concert in Prague he is incensed when he sees a statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn on the roof and orders it be destroyed.
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