Off the dusty shelf or "vom staubigen Regal"
How wierd to see the German perspective in a vintage Kaiserly romance novel "Geliebte Petruschka" by Lotte Gummert.
Don't bother trying to find a copy - I'm sure this is the only waterstained, moth-eaten hardback by this author to survive the '50s. But Kaiser is happy to lend any Deutsch-speakers her entertaining volume in which Americans are portrayed as chubby sausage-manufacturers with silly, irresponsible, spoiled wives who leave their jewelry cases open and un-guarded on transatlantic voyages to Europe.
The heroine? A tall, thin, very organized and efficient (of course) German ex-pat working as the sausage mogul's au pair. She finds out after she wins $10,000 on a TV quiz show and after she sets sail that she has another, "real" name, that her parents aren't her parents and that she might be minor royalty.
Ooooohhh, can't wait for the ship to reach das Mutterland......
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