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03470aam a2200577 i 4500 001 652BCF3EDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210522t20222022nyua e 000 f eng d 020 $a 195440400X 020 $a 9781954404007 035 $a (OCoLC)1252413090 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ORX $d RNL $d FHP $d GO4 $d MNN $d SINLB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d TOH $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 050 4 $a PT2722.R68 $b P6513 2022 082 04 $a 833/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Trotha, Hans von, $e author. 240 10 $a Pollaks arm. $l English 245 10 $a Pollak's arm / $c Hans von Trotha ; translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer. 264 1 $a New York City : $b New Vessel Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 147 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city's Jewish population the next day, Monsignor F. dispatches an envoy to a nearby palazzo to bring Ludwig Pollak and his family to safety within the papal premises. But Pollak shows himself in no hurry to leave his home and accept the eleventh-hour offer of refuge. Pollak's visitor is obliged to take a seat and listen as he recounts his life story: how he studied archaeology in Prague, his passion for Italy and Goethe, how he became a renowned antiquities dealer and advisor to great collectors like J. P. Morgan and the Austro-Hungarian emperor after his own Jewishness barred him from an academic career, and finally his spectacular discovery of the missing arm from the majestic ancient sculpture of Laocoön and his sons. Torn between hearing Pollak's spellbinding tale and the urgent mission to save the archaeologist from certain annihilation, the Vatican's anxious messenger presses him to make haste and depart. This stunning novel illuminates the chasm between civilization and barbarism by spotlighting a little-known figure devoted to knowledge and the power of artistic creation." -- Back cover. 600 10 $a Pollak, Ludwig, $d 1868- $v Fiction. 600 17 $a Pollak, Ludwig, $d 1868- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01841806 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 650 0 $a Archaeologists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Jews $z Italy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sculpture $x Conservation and restoration $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Archaeologists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812929 650 7 $a Jews. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00983135 650 7 $a Sculpture $x Conservation and restoration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01109490 651 7 $a Italy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204565 655 2 $a Fictional Work $0 (DNLM)D022922 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726537 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726640 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a War fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01922585 655 7 $a War fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 700 1 $a Lauffer, Elisabeth, $e translator. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011824.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033742.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405012224.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024522.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=652BCF3EDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search