On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany. Now he has to learn to live with his memories. In this intelligent and deeply moving book, G�ran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood in order to tell his father's story. It is also the story of the chasm that soon opens between the world of the child, suffused with the optimism, progress and collective oblivion of post-war Sweden, and the world of the father, haunted by the long shadows of the past.
| ISBN: | 9781783781300 |
| Publication date: | 5th November 2015 |
| Author: | Göran Rosenberg |
| Publisher: | Granta Books an imprint of Granta Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 331 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs The Holocaust |
On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany. Now he has to learn to live with his memories. In this intelligent and deeply moving book, G�ran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood in order to tell his father's story. It is also the story of the chasm that soon opens between the world of the child, suffused with the optimism, progress and collective oblivion of post-war Sweden, and the world of the father, haunted by the long shadows of the past.
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz features in the following genres: Memoirs, The Holocaust
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz is available in Paperback
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz was written by Göran Rosenberg and published by Granta Books an imprint of Granta Publications
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz has 331 pages
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