Vengeance is Mine
Language: English
Published by UEA Publishing Project, GB, 2026
- Softcover
- New
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A Jewish prisoner, beaten and abused by his captors, finds himself alone with his concentration camp commandant. The commandant's back is turned. His pistol lies within reach. What should the prisoner do?Written in 1943 while Friedrich Torberg, a Viennese Jew, was living in exile in California, Vengeance is Mine is the first English translation of one of the earliest works of Holocaust fiction. In it, Torberg grapples with a choice facing concentration camp inmates: comply and suffer? Or resist and risk immediate death?Torberg wrote this novel before the Nazi implementation of the Final Solution was known in America, yet he recognized that elimination of the Jews was behind even the initial actions of the men running the early concentration camps. Though reliant entirely on the accounts of a few escapees and survivors, Torberg penetrated the minds of both prisoner and captor and created a spare, riveting narrative that seizes the reader in a vise-like grip and leaves questions that compel discussion long afterwards.…
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- Title
- Vengeance is Mine
- Author
- Friedrich Torberg
- Publisher
- UEA Publishing Project, GB
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1915812526
- ISBN 13
- 9781915812520
- Item weight
- 120 grams
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About the Author
Friedrich Torberg was born in Vienna in 1908. He worked as a writer and reporter in Vienna and Prague before leaving for exile in France in 1938. He was brought to the United States by PEN in 1940 and lived in California, where he wrote Vengeance is Mine. He returned to Vienna in 1951, where he was best known for his satirical works and nostalgic tales of Jewish life before the war. He died in 1979.
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