The Woman from Hamburg : And Other True Stories

The Woman from Hamburg : And Other True Stories
The Woman from Hamburg : And Other True Stories
Other Press (NY)
Krall Hanna
2005-06-17
260
127 x 193 mm
hardcover

Published: 2005-06-17
Pages: 260
Hardback
Format: 127 x 193 mm

9781590511367
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In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the Germans. A young American man refuses to let go of the ghost of his half brother who died in the Warsaw ghetto. He never knew the boy, yet he learns Polish to communicate with his dybbuk. A high ranking German officer conceives of a plan to kill Hitler after witnessing a mass execution of Jews in Eastern Poland. Through Krall's adroit and journalistic style, her reader is thrown into a world where love, hatred, compassion, and indifference appear in places where we least expect them, illuminating the implacable logic of the surreal. "It is precisely the difficult path [Krall] takes toward her topic that has made some of these texts masterpieces." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeit...
Author
Krall Hanna
Published
2005-06-17
Pages
260
Format
127 x 193 mm
Cover
hardcover

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