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Carry Me Across the Water
This is the gentle story of August Kleinman and the tribulations of his life. At times a commentary on present day Judaism it intersperses the present with various happenings in August's past. In the present day he is a retired millionaire ex-brewery owner who visits his son and daughter-in-law and grandson to be a kind grandfather. He escaped the rise of Nazism in Germany to settle in America with his mother. He was drafted in the final stages of t...