A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz / by Göran Rosenberg ; translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death ; revised by John Cullen.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: New York : Other Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 331 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1590516079 (alk. paper)
- 1590516087
- 9781590516072 (alk. paper)
- 9781590516089
- Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father's attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August Prize
On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival.
In this intelligent and deeply moving book, Göran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood to tell the story of his father: walking at his side, holding his hand, trying to get close to him. It is also the story of the chasm between the world of the child, permeated by the optimism, progress, and collective oblivion of postwar Sweden, and the world of the father, darkened by the long shadows of the past.
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A "memoir by a journalist about his father's attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden"--Dust jacket.
On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival. Rosenberg returns to his own childhood to tell the story of his father; it is also the story of the chasm between the world of the child, permeated by the optimism, progress, and collective oblivion of postwar Sweden, and the world of the father, darkened by the long shadows of the past.