Leopoldstadt - Deluxe Edition Fig Tree is his own body

is his own body

startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic

His purpose is to reach the Shining City

He meets a homeless philosopher-poet

Leopoldstadt - Deluxe Edition Fig Tree is his own bodyAt the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable part of the city, Hermann's extended family are at the heart of Tom Stoppard's epic yet intimate drama. By the time we have taken leave of them, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war,