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The Shawl
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Shawl
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Cynthia Ozick
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Series | W&N Essentials |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:80 | Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 128 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781474624022
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Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Orion Publishing Co
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Imprint |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Publication Date |
15 April 2021 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Fierce, concentrated, and brutal, The Shawl burns itself into the reader's imagination with almost surreal power' The New York Times Consider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new. As long as they didn't have to say human being. In the middle of winter, weak and starving, Rosa marches to a Nazi concentration camp. She clutches her baby to her chest, wrapped in a shawl. Later Rosa will stuff the shawl into her mouth to stop herself from screaming out at the horrific event she must witness. Thirty years later, in a summer without end, Rosa is in Miami. Her anger and grief have become her dementia and her sustenance, and a shawl conjures the spirit of her murdered child. A modern classic and a masterpiece in both acts, The Shawl succeeds in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness of its aftermath.
Author Biography
Cynthia Ozick's essays, novels and short stories have won numerous prizes and awards; The Puttermesser Papers was a finalist for the National Book Award and Quarrel & Quandary was a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. She lives in the New York City area.
ReviewsOzick is one hell of a writer and The Shawl rings like a bell marked Truth. -- COLIN WATERS * SUNDAY HERLAD *
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