David Unger
David Unger's novel, The Price of Escape (Akashic, $15.95) depicts three days in the life of Samuel Berkow, a German Jew who leaves Nazi Germany by boat in 1938 to Guatemala where he hopes to remake his life in the New World. But he must overcome a host of depraved creatures—petty thieves, liars, prostitutes, defrocked priests and anti-Semites—scheming to destroy him. Unger is considered one of Guatemala’s major living writers even though he writes exclusively in English.
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