Historical Fiction · TenseLanny Budd in Nazi Germany, 1929 to 1934
Dragon's Teeth
Lanny Budd tries to get a Jewish family out of Germany as the Nazis take power
The novel is set in Germany from 1929 to 1934, during the Nazi takeover. After a yacht trip, a wealthy Jewish family is seized by the Nazis and split up among prisons and camps. Lanny Budd, a socialist, art expert and grandson of an American arms manufacturer, works to get the last family member out of Germany. He is arrested himself, later freed, and is caught up in the Blood Purge of 30 June to 2 July 1934.
More about this book
Who
Lanny Budd; his wife Irma Barnes; his half-sister Bess and her husband Hansi, a Jewish musician; and a Jewish family in Germany.
World
Germany from 1929 to 1934, with the opening scene in England.
What makes it different
It is the third of eleven novels in Sinclair's World's End series about Lanny Budd, after World's End and Between Two Worlds and before Wide Is the Gate. It won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
Feel
Fast-moving and political, a historical thriller.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Behind the book
Lanny first met the Jewish family in the first volume of the series, and by this book his half-sister has married one of the sons.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Dragon's TeethWikipedia