A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz: A Memoir

Rosenberg, GÃ ran

ISBN 10: 1590518403 / ISBN 13: 9781590518403

Published by Other Press, 2017

Seller Inventory # IN-mon0000047430

Synopsis:

This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father's attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August Prize

On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival.

In this intelligent and deeply moving book, Göran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood to tell the story of his father: walking at his side, holding his hand, trying to get close to him. It is also the story of the chasm between the world of the child, permeated by the optimism, progress, and collective oblivion of postwar Sweden, and the world of the father, darkened by the long shadows of the past.

About the Author: Göran Rosenberg was born in 1948 in Sweden, where he is a well-known author. In 1970 he left academia to work as a journalist for Swedish television, radio, and print. He is the author of several books, including the highly acclaimed Det Förlorade landet [The Lost Land: A Personal History of Zionism, Messianism, and the State of Israel].

Sarah Death is a translator, literary scholar, and editor of the UK-based journalSwedish Book Review. Her translations from the Swedish include Ellen Mattson'sSnow, for which she won the Bernard Shaw Translation Prize. She lives and works in Kent, England.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz: A ...
Publisher: Other Press
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: paperback
Condition: New