Aftershocks / stories by Grete Weil ; translated from the German by John S. Barrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weil, Grete, 1906-1999.

Contributor:

Barrett, John S. (John Smith), 1935-

Series:

Verba Mundi

A Verba Mundi book

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2007

Language:

English

German

Physical Description:

xi, 113 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : D.R. Godine, 2007.

Summary:

Grete Weil's novels have shown her to be a unique and highly personal witness to the horrors of the Holocaust. In this collection of short fiction, the author looks beyond the loss of loved ones and the effect of the era on her fellow Germans to the effect of the Holocaust on those who fled to California, New York, Paris, even the isolated forests of the Yucatan. Weil compares these emigrants to survivors of an atomic blast, who have lived beyond the initial explosion and considered the worst to be over, only to later sicken and suffer. The fugitives' lives are damaged, in some cases destroyed, by the aftershock of the Holocaust - by their inability to shed the culture of the country from which they have fled, from the intense memories of better times, and the constant intrusion of the ghosts of both victims and persecutors into their attempts to lead new, possibly happy, lives. The author's acerbic but rigorously honest gaze spares no one, not even herself.

Contents:

Guernica

Don't touch me

The house in the desert

Little Sonia Rosenkranz

The most beautiful spot in the world

... finish what you started

And I? A witness to pain.

ISBN:

1567922821

9781567922820

OCLC:

56405137