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5%OFFEdward Reicher - Country of Ash - 9781934137451 - V9781934137451
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Country of Ash

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Description for Country of Ash Paperback. A starkly compelling, original chronicle of survival in Nazi-occupied Poland, available in English for the first time Translator(s): Bogin, Magda. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 285.
"[Dr. Reicher] lived through the Second World War in Poland, dodging bullets, uprisings and deportations--not to mention betrayal, starvation and airless hideouts--in a manner more reminiscent of a talented outlaw than a mild-mannered dermatologist ...It is the impressive simplicity of the good doctor's writing that makes [t]his book resemble [Victor] Klemperer's, and the detailed observations of its report that makes it emotionally memorable...William Carlos Williams once said that people who prize information are perishing daily for want of the information that can be found only in poetry. By the same token, there will never be a time when we will ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781934137451
SKU
V9781934137451
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About Edward Reicher
Edward Reicher (1900--1975) was born in Lodz, Poland. He graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Warsaw, later studied dermatology in Paris and Vienna, and practiced in Lodz as a dermatologist and venereal disease specialist both before and after World War II. A Jewish survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, Reicher appeared at a tribunal in Salzburg to ... Read more

Reviews for Country of Ash
"Stirring"
Jewish Daily Forward "A riveting account of the will to survive."
Midwest Book Review "A moving memoir, a finely crafted and beautifully written story."
World Literature Today "It's the rough texture of Reicher's tale
like grainy celluloid from a bygone era
that gives such a powerful, deeply disturbing immediacy to the ghetto inhabitants he remembers. Reicher tells us they're no more, ... Read more

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