Displaced Persons: A Novel
Autor Ghita Schwarzen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 aug 2011
—Anne Roiphe, National Book Award-winning author ofFruitful
An astonishing tale of grief and anger, memory and survival,Displaced Personsmarks the arrival of a supremely gifted new literary talent,Ghita Schwarz. Schwarz’s powerful story of a group of Holocaust survivors—“displaced persons”—struggling to remake their lives and cope with the stigma of their pasts in the wake of the monumental Nazi horror is beautiful, tragic, moving, and unforgettable, chronicling the lives of ordinary people who have suffered under extraordinary circumstances.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780061881770
ISBN-10: 0061881775
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: HARPERCOLLINS;
Colecția William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN-10: 0061881775
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: HARPERCOLLINS;
Colecția William Morrow Paperbacks
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Textul de pe ultima copertă
In
May
1945,
Pavel
Mandl,
a
Polish
Jew
recently
liberated
from
a
concentration
camp,
finds
himself
among
similarly
displaced
persons
gathered
in
the
Allied
occupation
zones
of
a
defeated
Germany.
Possessing
little
besides
a
map,
a
few
tins
of
food,
and
a
talent
for
black-market
trading,
he
must
scrape
together
a
new
life
in
a
chaotic
community
of
refugees,
civilians,
and
soldiers.
With
fellow
refugees
Fela,
a
young
widow,
and
Chaim,
a
resourceful
teenager
with
impressive
smuggling
skills,
Pavel
establishes
a
makeshift
family,
as
together
they
face
an
uncertain
future.
Eventually
the
trio
immigrates
to
the
United
States,
where
they
grapple
with
past
traumas
that
arise
again
in
the
everyday
moments
of
lives
no
longer
dominated
by
the
need
to
endure,
fight,
hide,
or
escape.
Ghita Schwarz’sDisplaced Personsis an astonishing novel of grief, anger, and survival that examines the landscape of liberation and reveals the interior despairs and joys of immigrants shaped by war and trauma.
Ghita Schwarz’sDisplaced Personsis an astonishing novel of grief, anger, and survival that examines the landscape of liberation and reveals the interior despairs and joys of immigrants shaped by war and trauma.
Recenzii
“Schwarz
...
captures
perfectly,
and
with
elegance,
the
highs
and
lows,
the
grief
and
anger,
and
the
paranoia
of
these
refugees.
In
a
word,
this
is
a
‘humane’
novel.”
“A deft rendering of the emotional architecture of an ad-hoc family of Holocaust survivors.”
“Ghita Schwarz makes her mark with this remarkable debut.Displaced Personsis a brave, brilliant, and haunting work of art.”
“This is an amazing novel. The writing is piercing and clear, and the humanity of the author and her characters will inhabit my thoughts for years to come.”
“Ghita Schwarz poignantly reminds us that history chases us even if we run from it and that memory ensnares us wherever we turn.Displaced Personsis a big, ambitious novel, yet what’s most striking is its humanity....[it] is a terrific novel.”
“In her warm portrayal of the postwar highs and lows experienced by Pavel and his family, Schwarz aptly evokes the emotions of those who survived.”
“Poignant and sharp, this engrossing first novel takes a …look at a time and a people defined by deep inner strength. Recommended for a wide range of readers, and a perfect book club choice.”
“Deceptively simple in style, Schwarz’s narrative discloses depths of tragedy, of suffering, and occasionally of hope…Stark, unadorned fiction, well worth reading.”
“In this powerful debut novel, author Ghita Schwarz, a child of Holocaust survivors, hypnotically spins the tale of a Polish Jew Named Pavel who bravely rebuilds his shattered life in the aftermath of World War II.... Schwarz brilliantly gives us the long view of what postwar survival really meant.”
“An exquisite rendering of the internal lives of survivors”
“A haunting and memorable debut. . . . Fascinating”
“An epic tale...”
“A deft rendering of the emotional architecture of an ad-hoc family of Holocaust survivors.”
“Ghita Schwarz makes her mark with this remarkable debut.Displaced Personsis a brave, brilliant, and haunting work of art.”
“This is an amazing novel. The writing is piercing and clear, and the humanity of the author and her characters will inhabit my thoughts for years to come.”
“Ghita Schwarz poignantly reminds us that history chases us even if we run from it and that memory ensnares us wherever we turn.Displaced Personsis a big, ambitious novel, yet what’s most striking is its humanity....[it] is a terrific novel.”
“In her warm portrayal of the postwar highs and lows experienced by Pavel and his family, Schwarz aptly evokes the emotions of those who survived.”
“Poignant and sharp, this engrossing first novel takes a …look at a time and a people defined by deep inner strength. Recommended for a wide range of readers, and a perfect book club choice.”
“Deceptively simple in style, Schwarz’s narrative discloses depths of tragedy, of suffering, and occasionally of hope…Stark, unadorned fiction, well worth reading.”
“In this powerful debut novel, author Ghita Schwarz, a child of Holocaust survivors, hypnotically spins the tale of a Polish Jew Named Pavel who bravely rebuilds his shattered life in the aftermath of World War II.... Schwarz brilliantly gives us the long view of what postwar survival really meant.”
“An exquisite rendering of the internal lives of survivors”
“A haunting and memorable debut. . . . Fascinating”
“An epic tale...”