by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor · Hachette · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782013220170
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«Inconnu à cette adresse» is the epistolary novel by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, published by Hachette in paperback (96 pages, in French).
Max, an American Jew, and Martin, his German friend, exchange letters between 1932 and 1934, when Germany is mired in poverty and Nazism is gaining power. The correspondence reflects how this historical tension corrodes their friendship and pits them against each other over loyalty, conscience and betrayal.
The original work, Address Unknown, was published in 1938. The book was nominated for the Premi Llibreter prize for fiction in 2001.
The novel is aimed at young readers and belongs to the field of children's and young adult literature.
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor or Kressmann Taylor was an American writer, known mostly for her Address Unknown (1938), a short novel written as a series of letters between a Jewish art dealer, living in San Francisco, and his business partner, who had returned to Germany in 1932. It is credited with exposing, early on, the dangers of Nazism to the American public.
