Burned Child Seeks the Fire: A Memoir - Couverture rigide

Edvardson, Cordelia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807070947 ISBN 13 : 9780807070949

Editeur : Beacon Press, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Edvardson Cordelia

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

[A] searing memoir. . . . An enduring, indeed universal, story.
Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe

Summoned with her mother to Gestapo headquarters in 1943, fourteen-year-old Cordelia Edvardson was given a terrible choice: to acknowledge her secret Jewish heritage and suffer the consequences or to see her mother charged with treason. Burned Child Seeks the Fire is the true story of the love between this mother and daughter, and a piercing example of the tragedies wrought by Nazi Germany.

"A lacerating, beautifully translated memoir."
Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Mesmerizing. . . . [Has] the concise unreality of a horrifying fairy tale."
Thomas Frick, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Behind [Edvardson's] deceptively simple prose is a complex and tragic story."
Judith Bolton-Fasman, Newsday

"Cordelia Edvardson's defiant tone challenges us to eschew simplified encounters with the literature and experiences of Holocaust survivors."
Paul H. Hamburg, Jewish Book World

"To see the horrors of the Holocaust through a child's eye is to experience hell. Cordelia Edvardson's astonishing story captures, with a terrifying reality, a child's response to the myriad atrocities of the Nazis and their murderous regime. Burned Child Seeks the Fire is compelling, horrifying, poetic in its intensity."
Deborah Peifer, Bay Area Reporter

Biographie de l'auteur :

Cordelia Edvardson lives in Jerusalem, where she is Middle East correspondent for the Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet. She is a prize-winning journalist and author of several books.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Beacon Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0807070947
• ISBN 13: 9780807070949
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128