Lo scialle
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788811655701 (8811655706)
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: Garzanti
Pages no: 90
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Read For School,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
World War II,
Short Stories,
Holocaust
The Shawl is the first book I’ve read concerning the Holocaust but it’s everything one would expect it to be. A horrific, poignant, lyrical, and heartbreaking narrative of one woman’s life before, during and after the traumatizing events for the Jewish during WWII. Listening to Yelena Shmulenson’s s...
This was actually two short stories. The Shawl was brutally short. Rosa was a bit longer and I admit to wanting a less ambiguous ending. But overall, I highly recommend both.
This book punches you in the stomach even though you know its coming.I first read Cynthia Ozick when I was prepareing to teach Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Ozick had written an essay, "Who Owns Anne Frank?" for The New Yorker. Then I picked this book up a couple weeks ago.There is a deba...
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