Soul of Wood-Fast Shipping

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Soul of Wood made Jakov Lind’s reputation as one of the most boldy imaginative postwar writers and it remains his most celebrated achievement. In the title novellaand six subsequent stories, Lind distorts and refashions reality to make the deepesthorrors of the twentieth century his own.

Set during World War II, “Soul of Wood”is the story of Wohlbrecht, a peg-legged veteran of World War I, who smuggles AntonBarth, a paralyzed Jewish boy, to a mountain hideout after the boy’s parents havebeen sent to their deaths. Abandoning the helpless boy to the elements, Wohlbrechtreturns to Vienna, where, having been committed to an insane asylum, he helps thechief psychiatrist to administer lethal injections to other patients. But Germanyis collapsing and the war will soon be over. The one way, Wohlbrecht realizes, thathe can evade retribution is by returning to the woods to redeem “his” hidden , however, have had the same bright idea.