Who Was David Weiser?

During the sweltering summer of 1957 in Gdansk, three boys and a girl fall under the spell of a mysterious classmate, David Weiser. A thin Jewish boy of few words, Weiser can hypnotize panthers, shoot a bullet through a Hitler stamp at a hundred meters, and even levitate. After staging a spectacular explosion with a hidden cache of old German munitions, Weiser and the girl, Elka, vanish without a trace, leaving the three other boys, including Pawel Heller — the novel's narrator — to explain his disappearance to the authorities. But the boys won't talk. What happened to David Weiser? And who was he — a demon, a prophet, or just a boy? Heller's quest for the answers to these questions makes for a beguiling and haunting tale.

• Author
• Paweł Huelle

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 304

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780151962945

• Genres
• fiction, poland, contemporary, novels, audiobook, school, jewish

• Release date
• 1987