Rebecca has always loved listening to her grandmother's stories about Briar Rose. However, the old woman's astonishing and hard-to-believe admission that she "is" Briar Rose sets Rebecca on an unforgettable path of self-discovery that will change her life forever.Jane Yolen...
The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a ...
God Below: A Faith Born in Hell—Life and Fate and the Otherwise Than Being This essay examines the idea of kenosis and holy folly in the years before, during, and after the Holocaust. The primary focus will be Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, though it also will touch upon Fyodor ...
Imre Kertesz, Elie Wiesel or Julius Fučík about the Holocaust. Although it’s a novel, it is an only slightly fictionalized account of experiences of its author as an inmate in no less than twenty Nazi concentration camps in France, Poland and Germany. ...
When she googled the three terms information about the Hungarian Gold Train appeared. The train held the valuable personal goods, jewelry, candlesticks, watches, furs, even gold, taken from Jews in Hungary during the Holocaust. “The structure of the book came first.”—WALDMAN “The structure...
“This is a thriller about geo-terrorism, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust as it reverberates decades later, and grasping global pharmaceutical syndicates. … In his novel Tobias connects the Holocaust, the Anthropocene, and the Sixth Extinction Spasm. … This is a crackerjack of a read. You will...
two sets of deaths. Associated most closely with the systematic mass murder of European Jews, the Holocaust, for some, also encompasses the deaths of millions of other civilians as a result of Nazi persecution and violence. The term remains contested, and Tuck weighs in on the side of ...
While not the first graphic novel to be written about the atrocities of the Holocaust (and surely not the last), Ginette Kolinka’s Adieu Birkenau approaches the subject with a surprising amount of levity and accessibility. The comic splits its time between the present... Read More 12345678910...
“One must never place a loaded gun on the stage if it isn’t going to go off,” Anton Chekhov is said to have told aspiring playwrights. In Central Stores, Vicki Baum’s novel, not one but two pistols are introduced in early chapters. Any reader who’s ever heard about Chekhov’s ...
Owing to the graphic novel's freedom from the typically brief duration, flat surfaces, standardized panels, constricted techniques, stereotyped characters, and simplified plots and attitudes of the conventional comic book, the graphic novel 'reader' experiences a richer sense of time and space and a...