The Shawl
A short story ('Rosa') and a novella ('The Shawl') which together tell an exquisitely powerful and moving tale of the Holocaust.At once fiercely immediate and complex in their implications, 'The Shawl' and 'Rosa' succeed in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the emptiness...
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A short story ('Rosa') and a novella ('The Shawl') which together tell an exquisitely powerful and moving tale of the Holocaust.At once fiercely immediate and complex in their implications, 'The Shawl' and 'Rosa' succeed in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the emptiness of its aftermath. They were written in 1977 but were first published in the early 1980s in The New Yorker. Both 'The Shawl' and 'Rosa' won first prize in the O. Henry Prize Stories and were chosen for Best American Short Stories.In 'The Shawl,' a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In 'Rosa,' that same woman appears thirty years later, 'a madwoman and a scavenger' in a Miami hotel. And in both stories there is a shawl — a shawl that can sustain a starving child or inadvertently destroy her, or even magically conjure her back to life.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781598876840 (1598876848)
Publish date: November 12th 2008
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Edition language: English
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...