Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780140186246
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 157 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 13 mm
One of the greatest books about Holocaust (and dark vision of human nature) ever written. Precise, brutal, naturalistic - sometimes unbearably. To read that one is a must.
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