| Descript |
426 pages ; 22 cm |
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Novel about Enric Marco, a Spanish man who claimed to have been a prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps, until historian Benito Bermejo found out that his story was not true |
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Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain's leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked in Austria in 2005 on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp, he has become a civic hero, speaking at hundreds of conferences, granting dozens of interviews, receiving state honours, publishing a successful memoir and even moving Spanish congressmen to tears at a memorial homage to Republicans deported by the Third Reich. The case shocked the world, and Enric Marco was labelled a great imposter to which he responded: "I am an impostor, but not a fraud." |
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English text translated from Spanish |
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"Winner English Pen Award"--Book jacket |
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Marco, Enric, 1921- -- Fiction
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Impostors and imposture -- Spain -- Fiction
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Impostors and imposture.
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Spain
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Fiction.
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Romaner
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| Classmark |
863/.64
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| Alt Auth |
Wynne, Frank,
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| Translation |
Impostor. English
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780857056504 |
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0857056506 |
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9780857056511 |
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0857056514 |
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