{"product_id":"one-hundred-saturdays-stella-levi-and-the-search-for-a-lost-world-hardcover","title":"One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Frank\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMaira Kalman\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e's Ten Best Books of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Winner of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council's Natan Notable Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e* Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood on the Greek island of Rhodes where she'd grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNeither of them could know this was the first of one hundred Saturdays over the course of six years that they would spend in each other's company. During these meetings Stella traveled back in time to conjure what it felt like to come of age on this luminous, legendary island in the eastern Aegean, which the Italians conquered in 1912, began governing as an official colonial possession in 1923, and continued to administer even after the Germans seized control in September 1943. The following July, the Germans rounded up all 1,700-plus residents of the Juderia and sent them first by boat and then by train to Auschwitz on what was the longest journey--measured by both time and distance--of any of the deportations. Ninety percent of them were murdered upon arrival. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProbing and courageous, candid and sly, Stella is a magical modern-day Scheherazade whose stories reveal what it was like to grow up in an extraordinary place in an extraordinary time--and to construct a life after that place has vanished. \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Saturdays \u003c\/i\u003eis a portrait of one of the last survivors drawn at nearly the last possible moment, as well as an account of a tender and transformative friendship between storyteller and listener, offering a powerful \"reminder that the ability to listen thoughtfully is a rare and significant gift\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Frank is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Missing\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mighty Franks\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir, which was awarded the 2018 JQ Wingate Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e. His essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalmagundi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe TLS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. The recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives with his family in New York City and Camogli, Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaira Kalman is the author\/illustrator of over thirty books for adults and children and a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 8.56 x 5.87 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457979695282,"sku":"9781982167226","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/bb8a1b8579ad2bc42cb55d2cc43717d6.webp?v=1778886653","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/one-hundred-saturdays-stella-levi-and-the-search-for-a-lost-world-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}