Seventh Well - Couverture rigide

Wander, Fred

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847080227 ISBN 13 : 9781847080226

Editeur : Granta Books, 2008

Synopsis

"The Seventh Well" is a short autobiographical novel, whose loose, episodic chapters cover the period of 1942-5, which the author spent in German concentration camps. Flashbacks recall his early internment in France, and the book closes with the liberation of Buchenwald in April 1945. Rather than focus on his own story though, Fred Wander describes the lives and deaths of his fellow internees; the creative power of his story-telling invests their deaths with dignity, and keeps their memories alive. It was first published in 1971, then reissued with a new afterword to great acclaim in Germany in 2005, the year before the author died aged ninety. This new translation by acclaimed translator and poet Michael Hofmann captures the power and physicality of his language.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fred Wander was born in 1917 in Vienna. In 1938 he emigrated to France where he was interned in 1939, escaped to Switzerland, from where he was deported to Germany in 1942. He survived Auschwitz, Buchenwald and several other concentration camps. He was moved to write The Seventh Well after the tragic death of his daughter Kitty. Fred died in 2006 aged ninety.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847080227
• ISBN 13: 9781847080226
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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