Abragam [Abraham], Karl Arturovich, Dr.Dr.medicus (1933)	Dva chasa i vsia zhizn´. Berlin, 2000. 145 p., portr.	€27,50

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8 vo, publishers covers designed by D. Prizamd, photographic portrait by S. Buinov. Autographed. FIRST EDITION. Memoirs by a Berlin born Jewish doctor (1933). Karl Abragam moved to the USSR with his parents at the age of four. His father was arrested shortly after his arrival to Moscow and sent to GULag, and later to a Siberian exile. He was killed in car accident in 1970s. His wife survived in the USSR but had to do many menial jobs to feed the family and give better education to their son. Karl Abraham worked a few years as a military doctor at Soviet Polar Circle military rocket bases. He re- immigrated to Germany in 1991 (?) with his mother, wife and children. He worked a few years as a military doctor at Soviet Polar military rocket base. Collection of autobiographical style short essays in Chekhovian manner, with a strong 'Babelian' and 'Chekhovian' undertone. Author´s first publication appeared in the USSR in 1959, in a medical journal. He also published a number of articles on Russian writers and poets. All articles were printed in Ukrainian literary journals in Russian.