Ida Fink, Author Pantheon Books $15.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-394-55806-6
The tension evoked by these 23 seminal Holocaust tales, deftly translated from Polish, is sharpened by their brevity and lack of sentimentality. This is a jarring, powerful debut by a 66-year-old Israeli author who escaped from a Polish ghetto...
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Ida Fink, Author, Johanna Weshler, Translator, Joanna S. Weschler, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $20 (249p) ISBN 978-0-374-28541-8
With this deeply moving, masterfully controlled novel, Fink, a Jewish writer who was born in Poland in 1921, continues her exploration of survival during the Holocaust (begun in the story collection A Scrap of Time ). Two Jewish sisters armed only...
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Ida Fink, Author, Joanna S. Weschler, Translator, Francine Prose, Translator Plume Books $10.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-452-27015-2
With this utterly chilling novel, Fink continues her exploration of survival during the Holocaust, following two Jewish sisters who escape a Polish ghetto and work their way through Germany posing as Christians. (Aug.)
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Ida Fink, Author, Philip Boehm, Translator, Francine Prose, Translator Metropolitan Books $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4557-4
Appropriately enough, this heartbreaking collection begins with ""The End,"" an account of the precise moment in 1938 when the German invasion first impinges on the lives of two young Polish lovers. A mood of crushing fatalism runs through the book:
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