The Wherewithal : A Novel in Verse

ISBN-13: 9780393240948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 192 str.

Philip Schultz

Opis

I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski Head Clerk of Closed Files a department of one work in a forgotten well of ghostly sighThis astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother's diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war.

Recenzje

"One of the strongest literary renditions of the Shoah I know."-Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Years of Extermination