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The Shawl

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The Shawl

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THE SHAWL is considered a modern classic - a masterpiece in two acts. The horror and desolation evoked through piercing imagery - first through the abomination of a Holocaust concentration camp murder, second through the eyes of the murdered child's mother, thirty years later, now 'a madwoman and a scavenger' - offers the reader a chilling insight into the empty suffering of a 'survivor'. In THE SHAWL, a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her child, a child barely old enough to walk. The shawl that was the child's security blanket and lone possession reappears in the second story, Rosa. Rosa appears thirty years later, living in a Miami hotel and feeling the strain of a lifetime of pain: the hollowness of seeing her baby killed, of managing her harrowing memories she's being told to forget and of even now being treated as a specimen and not a human being.

Author Biography

Cynthia Ozick's essays, novels and short stories have won numerous prizes and awards; The Puttermesser Papers was a finalist for the National Book Award and Quarrel and Quandary was a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. She lives in the New York City area. Previous titles: Bear Boy (Bfmt Aug 06); Collected Stories; The Din in the Head; Heir to the Glimmering World; Trust; Those Who Forget the Past; Quarrel and Quandary; The Puttermesser Papers
Release date NZ
January 1st, 2007
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Pages
80
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Dimensions
129x199x8
ISBN-13
9780752880761
Product ID
1664163

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