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  • Germany: 'Anti-Semitic' book sells out

    06/28/2002 4:18:01 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 8 replies · 160+ views
    BBC News ^ | June 28 2002
    A controversial novel by German academic Martin Walser has sold out on its first day of publication in Germany. Tod eines Kritikers, Death of a critic, was called anti-Semitic by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper when it dropped plans to print extracts of the book. A spokesman at the Berlin bookstore Dussmann said his store had ordered "three times as many copies as for best-selling authors like John Grisham". "People undoubtedly want to see for themselves if the book is anti-Semitic," the spokesman said. Walser has said he never thought the book could apply to the Holocaust, as his critics maintain....