The publisher of a German novel that was branded anti-Semitic even before it was published said the book will go on sale this month. Suhrkamp Verlag said Wednesday it would publish “Death of a Critic” by Martin Walser, one of Germany’s best-known writers, because there have been so many accusations and so few people have actually read the work.
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