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A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz A Memoir

9781590518403

A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz A Memoir

  • ISBN 13:

    9781590518403

  • ISBN 10:

    1590518403

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 02/28/2017
  • Publisher: Other Press
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Summary

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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