If Not Now, When?
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140084924 (0140084924)
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 349
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Jewish,
World War II,
Italian Literature,
Holocaust
- Bien sûr, moi aussi je suis un "disparu". Un disparu, hein, pas un déserteur. Disparu depuis juillet 42, un des cent mille ou deux cent mille disparus : ce n'est pas une honte d'être un disparu, non? Et puis est-ce qu'on peut les compter, hein, les disparus? Si on pouvait, ce ne serait pas des dis...
Well written story about a group of Jews who band together to continue fighting the war as an outlaw group of partisans as they make their way towards Italy. Interesting that much of the content was so devasatating, yet told in such a dispassionate way. Still had a large impact.
"If not like this, how? And if not now, when?"This line is said by Gedale, one of the main characters of the novel towards the end of the book, but its meaning is wider.While reading many good and dramatic accounts from the Shoah there's a question that often comes to mind and mouth:"Why did all the...
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