New York Times Paperback Row Ihsan Taylor
A Polish journalist, Krall is drawn to unusual stories of World War
II survivors, Jews and non-Jews alike, and portrays how they lived,
died and coexisted. Our reviewer, Elena Lappin, said Krall ＂reports
the basic facts but adds a novelistic twist, weaving her interviews
into elegant, multilayered narratives.＂
內容簡介：
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives
of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the
twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman
starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews
afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the
Germans. A young American man refuses to let go of the ghost of his
half brother who died in the Warsaw ghetto. He never knew the boy,
yet he learns Polish to communicate with his dybbuk. A high ranking
German officer conceives of a plan to kill Hitler after witnessing
a mass execution of Jews in Eastern Poland.
Through Krall''s adroit and journalistic style, her reader is thrown
into a world where love, hatred, compassion, and indifference
appear in places where we least expect them, illuminating the
implacable logic of the surreal.
"It is precisely the difficult path [Krall] takes toward her topic
that has made some of these texts masterpieces." -- Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung on Dancing at Other People''s Weddings
"Heartbreaking, strange . . . and marvelously told." -- Die Zeit
on Proofs of Existence
關於作者：
Hanna Krall
Hanna Krall was born in Warsaw in 1937 and was a reporter for
Polityka from 1957 until 1981, when martial law was imposed and her
publications were banned. The recipient of numerous international
literary awards, her books have been translated into 15 languages.
She lives in Warsaw.
Madeline G. Levine
Madeline G. Levine was Czeslaw Milosz''s prose translator. Her
translation of Ida Fink''s A Scrap of Time and Other Stories was
awarded the PEN Book-of-the Month Club Translation Prize.
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