Childhood
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (771 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143107410 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Admirably understated haunting.” —Daily Mail“Singular and powerful There is no mawkish sentimentality here. Childhood punches well above its weight, and everyone should read it.” —Historical Novel Society“A rare achievement and a delight It approaches perfection.” —Asylum. “A book which will shock every reader with a heart.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"Simple terse shattering." —Harold Pinter, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A dark fairy tale … of the fears and anguish of a child, based on experiences that could not be grasped by reason, irrational yet truly real." —Heinrich Böll, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature“An astonishing book—memorable, piercing. It reaches to the very soul.” —Chaim Potok&ldquo
An overwhelming and intense novella that is a powerful contribution to Holocaust literature. Christian Engler In the canon of Holocaust literature, there is a vast litany of authors that one could choose from. From Primo Levy, Cynthia Ozick, Tadeusz Borowski, Imre Kertész and Eliz Wiesel to Isaac Bashevis Singer and W.G. Sebald and onward and onward, each of these authors and even those numerous others not mentioned, have a singular and powerful voice that offer a universal cry for those of the past and present whose cries went unheeded or were violently silenced. And sadl
. Jona Oberski is a Dutch nuclear and particle physicist. The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is named in his honor. He was born in 1938 and lives in Amsterdam.Jim Shepard is the author of The Book of Aron, a novel narrated by a child in a Warsaw Ghetto orphanage, as well as several other novels and collections of short
There, what at first seems to be a merely dreary existence soon reveals itself to be one of the worst horrors humanity has ever created. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. As five-year-old Jona waits with his mother and father to emigrate from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to Palestine, they are awakened at night, put on a train, and eventually interred in the camps at Bergen-Belsen. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.. A triumph of heartrending clarity and dispassionate amazement, Childhood stands tall alongside such monuments of Holocaust literature as The Diary of Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel’s Night, and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. A rediscovered masterpiece: an unblinking view of the Holocaust through a child’s eyes Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, Childhood is a searing story of the Holocaust