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God's Horse and The Atheists' School
Szkoła bezbożników
Wilhelm Dichter (born 1935)
Translated by Madeline G. Levine
English editions
In EnglishGod's Horse and The Atheists' School
Northwestern University Press · United States · 2012
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A Jewish boy who survived the war by a miracle comes of age in Poland in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Fascinated by communism and Stalinism, he hears the extreme views of the new order's enemies and its builders alike, and his indoctrination deepens until love unexpectedly halts it. The novel continues the story begun in God's Horse and shows how the ideology seduced and then disappointed.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 194 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Poland, late 1940s–early 1950s
- First published
- 1999 by Znak
- Author's age
- 64 when first published
- ISBN
9788370068943 (original)
9780810127937 (Northwestern University Press, United States)