
Refusal
Soazig Aaron(Author)
Harvill Secker (Publisher)
Published on 19. July 2007
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-84343-165-7 (ISBN)
Description
This moving and profoundly truthful story is told in the form of diary, kept by Angelika, the sister-in-law and friend of Klara, who, after her release from Auschwitz, wandered through war-ravaged Europe for two months before returning to Paris in August 1945. Gradually, over a period of six weeks, Klara reveals, with cold anger and pitiless lucidity, the full horror of what she experienced in Auschwitz as she struggles to readapt to normal life. Not since Sophie's Choice has a novelist succeeded in conveying - with truth, dignity, power and intelligence - the inhumanity of the death camps and the scars suffered by those who survived them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84343-165-7 (9781843431657)
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Person
Soazig Aaron was born in Rennes. She lived in Paris for several years, working in a bookshop, and now lives in Brittany. For this, her first novel (published in France as Le non de Klara), she was awarded the Prix Emmanuel-Robles and a Goncourt scholarship.