A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz
HK$272.00
DESCRIPTION :
On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany. Now he has to learn to live with his memories.
In this intelligent and deeply moving book, Goeran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood in order to tell his father's story. It is also the story of the chasm that soon opens between the world of the child, suffused with the optimism, progress and collective oblivion of post-war Sweden, and the world of the father, haunted by the long shadows of the past.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
DIMENSION : 222 mm x 143 mm
WEIGHT : 419 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
History & Archaeology
On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany. Now he has to learn to live with his memories.
In this intelligent and deeply moving book, Goeran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood in order to tell his father's story. It is also the story of the chasm that soon opens between the world of the child, suffused with the optimism, progress and collective oblivion of post-war Sweden, and the world of the father, haunted by the long shadows of the past.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9781847087782 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Rosenberg, Goran, TRANSLATED BY Carletti, Luigi, TRANSLATED BY Death, Sarah | |
| PUBLISHER : Granta Books | PUBLICATION DATE : November 06, 2014 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Granta Books |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Hardback | |
WEIGHT : 419 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
History & Archaeology