A Woman Named Solitude - Softcover

Schwarz-Bart, Andre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916870871 ISBN 13: 9780916870874

Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co, 1985

Synopsis

Like his previous book ""Last of the Just"", which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement, humiliation and survival.

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Review:

This book must be read to be believed.... Surely it shouldn't be possible to tell the tortures of slavery in the manner of a fairy tale and still convey the extent of the atrocity.... Andre Schwarz-Bart can, and does make literature out of agony. - New York Times Book Review; ""A beautiful book, told in a dreamlike flow of images.... The work of a conscientious and gifted writer."" - The New York Review of Books; ""Although written in a deceptively uncontrived style, this very powerful book brilliantly telescopes history and conveys all the breadth of emotion of a good epic poem."" - The New Yorker

From the Publisher:

‘Each word is a drop of sweat, a bloody tear wrenched from himself...not only a beautiful novel, it is the act of love of a man who chooses the camp of the victims’ L’Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0916870871
• ISBN 13: 9780916870874
• Binding: Paperback