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Nine Suitcases
Bela Zsolt
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Description for Nine Suitcases
Paperback. Nine Suitcases is a horror story but, sadly, a true one. Zsolt was both an accomplished novelist and a highly skilled journalist. He reports and analysizes the appalling events, almost immediately after they occurred, with exceptional freshness and a devastating blend of angry despair and cool detachment. Translator(s): Lob, Ladislaus. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Béla Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness and a devastating blend of angry despair and cool detachment, Zsolt - one of the earliest writers on the Holocaust - provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but a shocking exposure of the cruelty, indifference, selfishness, cowardice and betrayal of which human beings - the victims no less than the perpetrators - are capable in extreme circumstances. Interspersed with moments of grotesque ... Read more
Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Béla Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness and a devastating blend of angry despair and cool detachment, Zsolt - one of the earliest writers on the Holocaust - provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but a shocking exposure of the cruelty, indifference, selfishness, cowardice and betrayal of which human beings - the victims no less than the perpetrators - are capable in extreme circumstances. Interspersed with moments of grotesque ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712606899
SKU
V9780712606899
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About Bela Zsolt
Béla Zsolt was one of Hungary's best-known writers in the early twentieth century. Born in 1895, he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1918 and in a Hungarian-Jewish forced-labour unit in 1942-1943. In 1944, after a spell in a Hungarian ghetto and a German concentration camp, he found refuge in Switzerland. In 1945 he returned to Hungary and ... Read more
Reviews for Nine Suitcases
[A] heartbreaking memoir... Unbearably immediate
Laurence Phelan
Independent on Sunday
A sombre yet strangely beautiful account, devoid of sentimentality...the recent publication of his work in English is long overdue
Phil Baker
Sunday Times
Remarkable...exceptional
Caroline Moorehead
Times Literary Supplement
This is by far the best book I've come across on the ... Read more
Laurence Phelan
Independent on Sunday
A sombre yet strangely beautiful account, devoid of sentimentality...the recent publication of his work in English is long overdue
Phil Baker
Sunday Times
Remarkable...exceptional
Caroline Moorehead
Times Literary Supplement
This is by far the best book I've come across on the ... Read more