{"product_id":"the-woman-from-hamburg-and-other-true-stories-paperback","title":"The Woman from Hamburg: and Other True Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHanna Krall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the Germans. A young American man refuses to let go of the ghost of his half brother who died in the Warsaw ghetto. He never knew the boy, yet he learns Polish to communicate with his dybbuk. A high ranking German officer conceives of a plan to kill Hitler after witnessing a mass execution of Jews in Eastern Poland. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough Krall's adroit and journalistic style, her reader is thrown into a world where love, hatred, compassion, and indifference appear in places where we least expect them, illuminating the implacable logic of the surreal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It is precisely the difficult path  Krall] takes toward her topic that has made some of these texts masterpieces.\" \u003cbr\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e (on \u003ci\u003eDancing at Other People's Weddings\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Heartbreaking, strange . . . and marvelously told.\" \u003cbr\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eDie Zeit\u003c\/i\u003e (on \u003ci\u003eProofs of Existence\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHanna Krall\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHanna Krall was born in Warsaw in 1937 and was a reporter for \u003ci\u003ePolityka\u003c\/i\u003e from 1957 until 1981, when martial law was imposed and her publications were banned. The recipient of numerous international literary awards, her books have been translated into 15 languages. She lives in Warsaw. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadeline G. Levine\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMadeline G. Levine was Czeslaw Milosz's prose translator. Her translation of Ida Fink's \u003ci\u003eA Scrap of Time and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the PEN Book-of-the Month Club Translation Prize.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.6 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47506026954930,"sku":"9781590512234","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/eihosI5nuH9781590512234.webp?v=1779544750","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-woman-from-hamburg-and-other-true-stories-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}