Konin: A Quest - Couverture rigide

Richmond, Theo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224038907 ISBN 13 : 9780224038904

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1995

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 1939 the Polish town of Konin vanished in the wake of Nazi occupation. Twenty-five years later, Theo Richmond set out to find what he could about that vanished world. He traveled across the United States, Europe, and Israel, tracing survivors and sifting through archives and the stories of those he interviewed. A project he thought would take six months took seven years. Finally he confronted the Konin of today. Interweaving past and present, Konin tells the story of one community--how it began, how it flourished, and how it ended--and in the process re-creates the precariousness, anguish and necessity of human memory.

"A fascinating memorial to a lost community and the people who lived there."--The New York Times Book Review

"One reads [it] sometimes with a smile...always on the edge of tears--as if it were the most gripping adventure story."--Elie Wiesel, New York Newsday

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The extraordinary story of a small Jewish ghetto in a small town in Poland - and of one man's obsessive quest to discover its fate and its survivors. Since his early childhood in London, Theo Richmond had heard his relatives mention a place called Konin, the Polish Shtetl from which both his parents came. He felt an irresistible urge to find out more about this small town and its Jewish community, to place on record something of what the Nazis had destroyed and thus to remember. He searched for its few survivors, scattered in many lands. Starting with an old man in London, he traced others, not only in Britain, but in Brooklyn, Florida, Texas, on a kibbutz in Israel, Jerusalem and elsewhere.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0224038907
• ISBN 13: 9780224038904
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 544