Journey Through a Small Planet - Couverture souple

Litvinoff, Emanuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141189304 ISBN 13 : 9780141189307

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London: a small cluster of streets right next to the city, but worlds apart in culture and spirit. With vivid intensity Litvinoff describes the overcrowded tenements of Brick Lane and Whitechapel, the smell of pickled herring and onion bread, the rattle of sewing machines and chatter in Yiddish. He also relates stories of his parents, who fled from Russia in 1914, his experiences at school and a brief flirtation with Communism. Unsentimental, vital and almost dream like, this is a masterly evocation of a long-vanished world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emanuel Litvinoff (born 1915) is a British writer and human rights activist, and is one of the most well-known and regarded figures in post-war Anglo-Jewish literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141189304
• ISBN 13: 9780141189307
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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