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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781590512234
New York Times Paperback Row Ihsan Taylor
A Polish journalist, Krall is drawn to unusual stories of World War
II survivors, Jews and non-Jews alike, and portrays how they lived,
died and coexisted. Our reviewer, Elena Lappin, said Krall “reports
the basic facts but adds a novelistic twist, weaving her interviews
into elegant, multilayered narratives.”
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 Zeitung (on Dancing at Other People’s Weddings)
“Heartbreaking, strange . . . and marvelously told.” — Die Zeit
(on Proofs of Existence)
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