"It is difficult to read 'Effingers' without also reading the Holocaust back into its pages, yet the novel frustrates this response by the sheer abundance of life it evokes." Morten Høi Jensen on the literary miracle that is Gabriele Tergit’s ‘Effingers’:
Distressingly ResonantGabriele Tergit’s 1951 novel 'Effingers' paints a vast and amiably peopled panorama of German-Jewish life at the turn of the twentieth century.www.commonwealmagazine.org