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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Scribner
Publication date
October 4, 2016
Pages
304
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781501115219
ISBN-10
1501115219
Dimensions
0 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Original list price
$16.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Finalist for the 2017 Story Prize
Honorable Mention in the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish Literature
âAn absolutely dazzling triumphâ¦A singularly inventive collectionâ (Jewish Book Council) of linked stories set in a German-occupied town in Poland during World War II, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion.
1942. With the Nazi Party at the height of its monstrous power, Hitlerâs SS fires up the new crematorium at Auschwitz and the occupying army empties Polandâs towns and cities of their Jewish citizens. As neighbor turns on neighbor and survival depends on unthinkable choices, Poland has become a moral quagmire, a place of shifting truths and blinding ambiguities.
âFilled with rich attention to the details of flora and fauna and insightful descriptions of the nuances of rural and small-town lifeâ (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Helen Maryles Shankman shows us the people of Wlodawa, a remote Polish town at a crossroads: we meet an SS officer dedicated to rescuing the creator of his sonâs favorite picture book; a Messiah who announces that he is quitting; a Jewish girl who is hidden by an outspoken anti-Semiteâand his talking dog. And walking among these tales are the enigmatic Willy Reinhart, Commandant of the forced labor camp who has grand schemes to protect âhisâ Jews, and Soroka, the Jewish saddlemaker and his family, struggling to survive.
âMoving and unsettling...Like Joyceâs Dubliners, this book circles the same streets and encounters the same people as it depicts the horrors of Germanyâs invasion of Poland through the microcosm of one village....A deeply humane demonstration of wringing art from catastropheâ (Kirkus Reviews), They Were Like Family to Me (originally called In the Land of Armadillos) is a testament to the persistence of humanity in the most inhuman conditions.
Honorable Mention in the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish Literature
âAn absolutely dazzling triumphâ¦A singularly inventive collectionâ (Jewish Book Council) of linked stories set in a German-occupied town in Poland during World War II, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion.
1942. With the Nazi Party at the height of its monstrous power, Hitlerâs SS fires up the new crematorium at Auschwitz and the occupying army empties Polandâs towns and cities of their Jewish citizens. As neighbor turns on neighbor and survival depends on unthinkable choices, Poland has become a moral quagmire, a place of shifting truths and blinding ambiguities.
âFilled with rich attention to the details of flora and fauna and insightful descriptions of the nuances of rural and small-town lifeâ (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Helen Maryles Shankman shows us the people of Wlodawa, a remote Polish town at a crossroads: we meet an SS officer dedicated to rescuing the creator of his sonâs favorite picture book; a Messiah who announces that he is quitting; a Jewish girl who is hidden by an outspoken anti-Semiteâand his talking dog. And walking among these tales are the enigmatic Willy Reinhart, Commandant of the forced labor camp who has grand schemes to protect âhisâ Jews, and Soroka, the Jewish saddlemaker and his family, struggling to survive.
âMoving and unsettling...Like Joyceâs Dubliners, this book circles the same streets and encounters the same people as it depicts the horrors of Germanyâs invasion of Poland through the microcosm of one village....A deeply humane demonstration of wringing art from catastropheâ (Kirkus Reviews), They Were Like Family to Me (originally called In the Land of Armadillos) is a testament to the persistence of humanity in the most inhuman conditions.
Editions
Hardcover
from Scribner (February 2, 2016)
9781501115196 | details & prices | 285 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.86 lbs | List price $25.00
About: A radiant debut collection of linked stories from a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, set in a German-occupied town in Poland, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion.
About: A radiant debut collection of linked stories from a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, set in a German-occupied town in Poland, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Scribner (October 4, 2016)
9781501115219 | details & prices | 304 pages | List price $16.00
About: Finalist for the 2017 Story Prize Honorable Mention in the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish Literature âAn absolutely dazzling triumphâ¦A singularly inventive collectionâ (Jewish Book Council) of linked stories set in a German-occupied town in Poland during World War II, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion.
About: Finalist for the 2017 Story Prize Honorable Mention in the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish Literature âAn absolutely dazzling triumphâ¦A singularly inventive collectionâ (Jewish Book Council) of linked stories set in a German-occupied town in Poland during World War II, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion.
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