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Wilhelm Dichter

Born 1935 · Poland

In English
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  • In English

    Nike 2000 · Shortlist

    God's Horse and The Atheists' School

    Szkoła bezbożników

    Wilhelm Dichter · 64 when first published

    Novel · 194 pages · Coming of age, Politics, Historical

    AI-generated summary:In Poland at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, a Jewish teenager who survived the war by a miracle falls under the spell of communism and Stalinism, until love gets in the way.