TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chakrabarti,Jai
TI  - A play for the end of the world
SN  - 9780525658924
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Theater
KW  - Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - India
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - "A dazzling debut novel--the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of the Second World War, and a searing examination of one man's search for forgiveness and acceptance"--; New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk's oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Travelling there to collect his friend's ashes, Jaryk finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest against the government-- the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis. Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves. -- adapted from jacket
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