Dimensions
228 x 167 x 20mm
Being inescapably on both sides of one of the Twentieth Century's tragic faultlines forces neutrality upon German-Australian sailor Friedrich 'Fredy' Boettcher, a farmer's son from New South Wales. As an ineffectual witness to a horrifying incident of the
Armenian genocide in Turkey in 1915, he suffers
profound shock and loses his sense of touch for most
of his adult life. He is propelled around the world, meeting Banjo Patterson in Cairo, and Lawrence in Arabia, riding the rods as a hobo before working in
Hollywood, rescuing a simple man from Hitler's racial
hygiene laws and much more. Told in a racy, oral style,
Fredy's picaresque life as perhaps the only Nordiac
Superman ever is deep-dyed in layers of irony, and
attains a mind-inverting resolution.
