Schadenfreude

The year is 1912. David Klein is 16 when he runs away from the poverty and orthodoxy of his Jewish home in Birmingham for the bright lights and opportunity of New York. After surviving mid-Atlantic disaster on board RMS Titanic, the story moves between New York, Birmingham and Breslau in 1930's Germany.In Breslau David meets Karin, who leads a double life as a nightclub Kabaret (sic) artiste. Together they encounter and live through the burgeoning terror of 1938 Germany. As the tension mounts and David is incarcerated in Kletschkau Prison, Karin is forced to try and rescue both David and another Jewish family, despite her SS boyfriend Fritz being in complete ignorance of her double life.Swan, Olga is the author of 'Schadenfreude ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781847285669 and ISBN 184728566X.