The beautiful Mrs. Seidenman / Andrzej Szczypiorski ; translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska, with a new introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szczypiorski, Andrzej, author.

Contributor:

Glowczewska, Klara, translator.

Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda, introducter.

Standardized Title:

Początek. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Escapes--Fiction.

Escapes.

Warsaw (Poland)--History--Fiction.

Warsaw (Poland).

Poland--Warsaw.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 280 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Grove Atlantic edition.

Other Title:

Beautiful Missus Seidenman

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Grove Press, 2022.

Summary:

A masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a testament to the power of literature. Now with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who named it her "favorite book no one else has heard of" in the New York Times, the novel follows Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1943, who possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: blue eyes and blond hair. With these features, and a set of false papers, she slips out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until one day an informer spots her on the street and drags her off to the Gestapo. At times a dark lament, at others a sly and sardonic thriller, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is the story of the thirty-six hours that follow Irma's arrest and the events that lead to her dramatic rescue as the last of Warsaw's Jews are about to meet their deaths in the burning ghetto. -- by Publisher.

Notes:

Translation of: Początek.

ISBN:

9780802160430

0802160433

OCLC:

1309863755

Publisher Number:

99992336674