Leopoldstadt - Tom Stoppard Hardback powerful and funny

powerful and funny

intelligently and entertainingly revealed

This book is his ode to foraging

Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant

it's bad luck when her ambush is interrupted by Celine Hazelton

Leopoldstadt - Tom Stoppard Hardback powerful and funnyAt the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable part of the city, Hermann's extended family are at the heart of Tom Stoppard's epic yet intimate drama. By the time we have taken leave of them, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war,