This darkness will never end : / Edith Bruck ; translated by Jeanne Bonner

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruck, Edith

Standardized Title:

Andremo in citta. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Jewish refugees--Ficiton.

Jewish refugees.

Holocaust--Fiction.

Holocaust.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

xviii,187 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Paul Dry Books, 2025.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian

Summary:

This Darkness Will Never End, the first short story collection by the Hungarian-born author Edith Bruck, was published to acclaim in Italy in 1962. After World War II, Bruck, a Holocaust survivor, settled in Rome where she wrote her fable-like stories, recounting the lives of poor Jewish families in Europe before, during, and immediately following the war. In the title story, believed by some film scholars to have inspired the Oscar-winning movie Life Is Beautiful, a young girl shepherds her blind, sickly brother as they are deported. In "Matzoh Bread," a child gets a painful glimpse of anti-Semitism when a friend tells her a legend about the unleavened bread Jews eat at Passover. In one of the more colorful stories, a hapless father whose business partners swindle him over a horse only tells the truth when he's talking in his sleep. Beautifully translated from the Italian by Jeanne Bonner, these stories offer a glimpse into a bygone world. They testify to the resilience of survivors like Bruck, whom Italian critics initially compared to Anne Frank, deeming her the writer Anne would have become had she survived. -- Amazon

Contents:

Contents

Translator's introduction

The frozen river

My father's horse

Come to the window, it's Christmas

"This darkness will never end"

Silvia

A surprise

The verdict

At the foot of the bed

Reading French poetry after the war

Little red riding hood

Mr. Goldberg

Matzoh bread

Translator's note

Notes:

Originally published in Italy in 1962 as: Andremo in citta -- title page verso

Published in arrangement with The Italian Literary Agency

ISBN:

1589882016

9781589882010

OCLC:

1452504755

Publisher Number:

90101978442