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Elena Lappin (trans) and
Chava Pressburger (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Pr
Publication date
April 10, 2007
Pages
161
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780871139665
ISBN-10
0871139669
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight
1.20 lbs.
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Out of Print
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$24.00
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§As reported by publisher
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Summary
Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, the secret diary of a fourteen-year-old prodigy who later died at Auschwitz describes with keen insight into Jewish life the increasing horror of his situation but also reveals a brilliant, droll teenager with a hunger for life.
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Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, this secret diary of a teenage prodigy killed at Auschwitz is an extraordinary literary discovery, an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny. As a fourteen-year old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully records the increasingly precarious texture of daily life. With a child’s keen eye for the absurd and the tragic, he muses on the prank he played on his science class and then just pages later, reveals that his cousins have been called to relinquish all their possessions, having been summoned east in the next transport. The diary ends with Petr's own summons to Thereisenstadt, where he would become the driving force behind the secret newspaper Vedem, and where he would continue to draw, paint, write, and read, furiously educating himself for a future he would never see. Fortunately, Petr's voice lives on in his diary, a fresh, startling, and invaluable historical document and a testament to one remarkable child's insuppressible hunger for life.
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from Atlantic Monthly Pr (April 10, 2007)
9780871139665 | details & prices | 161 pages | 6.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, the secret diary of a fourteen-year-old prodigy who later died at Auschwitz describes with keen insight into Jewish life the increasing horror of his situation but also reveals a brilliant, droll teenager with a hunger for life.
About: Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, the secret diary of a fourteen-year-old prodigy who later died at Auschwitz describes with keen insight into Jewish life the increasing horror of his situation but also reveals a brilliant, droll teenager with a hunger for life.
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