Based on a true story, this haunting tale centers on two brutal murders -- the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender...
The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-H?lshoff, arguably one of Germany's greatest female poets. Often thought of as a detective novel, The Jews' Beech Tree is as much a mystery to read...