Hanna Krall, trans. from the Polish by Philip Boehm. Feminist, $15.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-55861-944-9
Originally published in Poland in 2006, this devastating, fragmentary Holocaust narrative follows a Jewish woman’s tireless drive to rescue her husband from Auschwitz. Izolda and Shayek fall for each other against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied...
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Hanna Krall, Author, Joanna Stasinska, Translator, Lawrence Weschler, Translator Northwestern University Press $21.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1075-5
This fine volume brings together two pieces by Polish journalist Krall. The first, never before available in English, is an eerie, semi-autobiographical novel detailing the narrator's relationship over nearly four decades with the subtenant, the...
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Hanna Krall, Author, Madeline Levine, Translator , trans. from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine. Other Press $19 (260p) ISBN 978-1-59051-136-7
The grim and the surreal portentously collide in Krall's 12 genre-bending pieces, all shadowed by the brutal facts of the Holocaust. In "Hamlet," Andrzej Czajkowski, a Polish piano impresario and composer who survived WWII as a child...
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