siria 's review for:

Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

4.0

dark emotional sad tense

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A short, sharp work that—for something written before the outbreak of the Second World War and by someone an ocean away from Germany—is highly insightful and prescient. Kathrine Kressmann Taylor's novella is written in the form of letters between two business partners: one a German Jew living in America, the other a Gentile who has moved back to Germany just as the Nazis come to power and who becomes an ardent follower of Hitler. Their relationship swiftly deteriorates. Kressmann Taylor's writing isn't subtle, but her point is clear and irrefutable: in a fascist society, words kill.