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This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz de Piera Sonnino

This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz

Autor Piera Sonnino Mary Doria Russell Traducere de Ann Goldstein
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2009

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National Jewish Book Award (2006)

Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in Italy and never before published in English, this poignant and extraordinarily well-written account is strikingly accurate in bringing to life the methodical and relentless erosion of the freedoms and human dignity of the Italian Jews, from Mussolini's racial laws of 1938 to the institutionalized horror of Auschwitz. Through Sonnino's words, memory has the power to disarm these unspeakable evils.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230613997
ISBN-10: 0230613993
Pagini: 218
Ilustrații: 8 page b/w illus on reg stock
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Descriere

Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in Italy and never before published in English, this poignant and extraordinarily well-written account is strikingly accurate in bringing to life the methodical and relentless erosion of the freedoms and human dignity of the Italian Jews, from Mussolini's racial laws of 1938 to the institutionalized horror of Auschwitz. Through Sonnino's words, memory has the power to disarm these unspeakable evils.

Cuprins


Foreword by David Denby
Translator's Note by Ann Goldstein
This Has Happened
Epilogue by Giacomo Papi
Afterword by Mary Doria Russell
Further Reading
Reading Group Guide for This Has Happened

Recenzii


'In spare, beautifully translated language, Sonnino details her life in Genoa prior to 1938, when the racial laws went into effect.' - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
 
'A moving account of a family caught up in the Shoah…An important contribution to Holocaust literature...Four illuminating essays bookend this slim memoir. David Denby acknowledges the 'tinge of irritation and guilt' people often feel upon the publication of a Holocaust memoir, then brilliantly demonstrates why this one is necessary.'- Kirkus, Starred Review
 
'The uniquely devastating quality of this book comes from the Old World refinement embodied by Sonnino's parents and the systematic degradations their children see them endure. Sonnino also displays a propensity to dwell on human kindness.' - The New Yorker 
 
'I have read any number of overwhelming and despairing works about the Holocaust, but I don't think I have ever read anything so simply structured, so clearly composed so heartfelt a tragedy, especially from the pen of someone who never considered herself a writer - as the one that unfolds in this brief memoir.' - Robert Leiter, Jewish Exponent
 
'Our world of habit would suggest that little more can be said about the Nazi death camps and the horrors of the Final Solution. But a narrative with the dignity and concise elegant candor of This Has Happened is a pointed reminder that suffering is inescapably individual, unique, and present. Piera Sonnino's account of the terrible end of her family achieves a kind of classic starkness that makes it a living representation of human loss.' - W.S. Merwin, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, National Book Award winner for Migration
 
'Piera Sonnino wasn't supposed to survive and she didn't expect anyone to read about her family's, her community's and her people's suffering. Aiming only for truth, using only the most beautiful of language, she's created an accidental masterpiece. This Has Happened is a stunning gift by a remarkable woman from an intolerable era.' - Melvin Jules Bukiet, author of After, Strange Fire
 
'What can I say to make you read this book? That it is imperceptibly moving, encroachingly horrifying, utterly soul-wrenching? But you've heard that before, and won't believe me. Instead I will tell you this: reading this book is not at all like reading a book. Instead, it is like talking with a person, knowing a person, knowing an entire family and then knowing, not through art but through life, what it means to lose everything, by knowing precisely what 'everything' is.' -Dara Horn, award-winning author of In The Image and The World To Come
 
'A rare, beautiful and movingly written book. The simplicity and honesty with which Sonnino conveys her family's experiences are gripping and heartbreaking. As a historical document, this book is particularly valuable in view of the fact that there are fewer records of the Holocaust experiences of Italian Jews than of most other European Jews. With the historical significance of this book comes an unobtrusive message of familial love and devotion, a message which will undoubtedly resonate for generations to come.' - Nechama Tec, Holocaust Scholar and Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Connecticut in Stamford, and author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning Resiliance and Courage: Women Men and the Holocaust
 
'Consice, restrained, and tightly written, a look from the inside of the Holocaust out.' - Entertainment Weekly
 
'I have read any number of overwhelming and despairing works about the Holocaust, but I don't think I have ever read anything so simply structured, so clearly composed so heartfelt a tragedy, especially from the pen of someone who never considered herself a writer as the one that unfolds in this brief memoir.' - Robert Leiter, Jewish Exponent

Notă biografică


PIERA SONNINO was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. She was later transferred to Bergen Belsen and Braunschweig. The sole survivor of a family of eight, she returned to Italy in 1950. She died in 1999.
ANN GOLDSTEIN is an editor at the New Yorker. She has translated works by Roberto Calasso, Alessandro Baricco, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Aldo Buzzi. The recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award, she is the editor of the forthcoming collected works of Primo Levi. She lives in New York.

Caracteristici


As the WWII generation ages and dies, there is a growing need for first-hand accounts to maintain the memory of those years. This is the unique story of an Italian Jewish family recounted by the sole survivor, Piera, who wrote it ten years after her release for the benefit of her children and her children's children. The fact that the book was not written for publication but for personal use makes it particularly candid and moving
Ann Goldstein, editor at New Yorker magazine and an award-winning translator
Sonnino's style is straightforward but succeeds in conveying the most powerful emotions in a manner reminiscent of Primo Levi
Starred Reviews in Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus, National Jewish Book Award Finalist

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