Examines how novels and short stories portray those who managed to escape from Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism. This book argues that f... » 

Examines how novels and short stories portray those who managed to escape from Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism. This book argues that fiction, by taking ordinary escapees' difficulties into account, paradoxically offers a more subtle and true picture than sociological studies. «