Effingers

"Gabriele Tergit's Effingers is a novel both epic and intimate as it chronicles the lives and fates of three generations of a German- Jewish family. Beginning from 1878--the year after the narrative of Buddenbrooks ends--and ending in 1948, we follow the Effingers, a family of modest craftsmen from southern Germany, who are joined through marriage to two families of high-society financiers in Berlin, the Goldschmidts and the Oppners. The Effingers soon rise to prominence as one of the most important German industrialist families in Berlin, but with the outbreak of World War I, they fall on hard times, and must then navigate the tumultuous changes of the Weimar Republic"--

Gabriele Tergit, translated from the German by Sophie Duvernoy