Mr Wilder and Me

by Jonathan Coe

Viking Press

   Billy Wilder is nearing the end of a fantastic career; Calista is a young Greek woman whose career as a film composer hasn't begun. She's hired as a translator for Wilder's latest production and becomes a small part of a big motion picture, meeting people who are kinder but not nearly as happy as she would have them.

    Told from Calista's much later perspective, there is much reminiscence of a simpler time for her, but also Wilder's own memories of the War and what the Holocaust took from him and the world.

   This is a deceptively straightforward story with many great layers.

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