Gabriele Tergit's Käsebier Takes Berlin was a German publishing success in 1931, and then it slept. Though its author was a Jewish journalist it was not even noticed when books were burnt in 1933, by which time the author had fled Germany for Czechoslovakia, then Israel, finally settling. Then, in 1977, the novel was republished and a glorious, captivating mess brought fame to an 83-year-old