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Second Hand Smoke: A Novel
In the seamy atmosphere of Miami Beach's Collins Avenue, Mila Katz, a streaky card shark and confidante of mobsters, lives by the wits with which she has survived the Holocaust. Second Hand Smoke is the story of Mila's sons, Issac and Duncan, the one secretly abandoned in Poland, and the other, American-born, raised as an avenging Nazi hunter, poisoned with rage.
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Paperback, 320 pages
Published
February 22nd 2000
by St. Martin's Griffin
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This fascinating book is about Duncan Katz, the son of Holocaust survivors, and the impact of his parents horrific experiences on his own life. It especially deals with Duncan’s relationship with his mother, Mila Katz, a Miami card shark and gangster, victimized by the Nazis and guilt-ridden over the abandonment of her other son, Isaac, in Poland when he was an infant. Mila blew “second-hand smoke” into the lungs of her children, the smoke being that which came from the chimneys of Auschwitz. ...more
This book is about second generation Holocaust survivors. The book is strangely constructed and the main character is not likeable.
Interesting, worthwhile read.
tries too hard but interesting nonetheless
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