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Vengeance is mine / Friedrich Torberg ; translation by Stephanie Gorrell Ortega ; introduction by Menachem Kaiser ; afterword by Marcel Atze.
Van Pelt Library PT2621.A44 V46 2026
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torberg, Friedrich, 1908-1979, author.
- Series:
- Recovered Books
- Standardized Title:
- Mein ist die rache. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jews--Germany--Fiction.
- Jews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Novels
- Translations
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Norwich, UK] : Boiler House Press, 2026.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the German.
- Summary:
- "One morning in November 1940, two men meet on New Jersey dock. One, haggard and haunted, says he's waiting for 75 refugees from Hitler's Germany. Every day he comes, and every day he leaves-alone. Over a drink in a nearby bar, he relates the story of his imprisonment in a pre-war Nazi concentration camp. Of the SS commandant who separated out all the Jewish inmates and set about a deliberate programto kill them one by one, by torture, beatings, or suicide. Until the day when one inmate found himself faced with a decision: was vengeance, as it says in the Torah, a matter for God alone? Written in 1943 and never before translated into English, Vengeance is Mine is the first work of fiction to predict the Nazi's final solution, their program to exterminate the Jews. Its story is short, stunning, and unforgettable: a 20th century masterpiece."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Mein ist die rache.
- Originally published: Munich : Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2008.
- Includes bibliographic references.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781915812520
- 1915812526
- OCLC:
- 1572419739
- Publisher Number:
- 90104363313
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