The Seamstress - Couverture souple

Bernstein, Sara Tuval

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0425166309 ISBN 13 : 9780425166307

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 1999

Synopsis

The Seamstress Written by a strong woman with an unusual story to tell, this is "one of the best of the recent wave of Holocaust memoirs" ("Kirkus"). ALA choice. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania?and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father' s orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher' s vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him?After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women' s concentration camp, Aand? managed to survive?she tells this story with style and power." -- Kirkus Reviews

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sara Tuval Bernstein was born in Romania and attended school in Bucharest before being expelled after speaking out against anti-Semitism. She was liberated from the concentration camp Bergau by the Red Cross and then volunteered to teach sewing to fellow displaced women. She is known for her memoir The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival. 

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0425166309
• ISBN 13: 9780425166307
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384