- World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, Germany, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction
Siggi Jepsen (the first-person narrator), an inmate of a juvenile detention center, is forced to write an essay with the title "The Joy of Duty."
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and bleak.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Siegfried Lenz
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 470
- Publisher
- C. Bange GmbH & Co KG, Hoffman & Campe, Avon
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- cat, Italian, Chinese, German
- ISBN
- 9780356036397
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About Siegfried Lenz · 1926
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