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And the Rat Laughed is a unique book. Unlike other Holocaust-related books that focus on the historical horrific events, this novel deals with the act of remembering them. It resembles a relay race in which the characters transfer memory from one another, while travelling on the axis of time. The book begins in the last day of 1999, when a survivor Grandmother in Tel Aviv shares her tragic life story as a hidden child in a pit, with only a rat for company with her granddaughter. The day after - 2000 already - the granddaughter tells the legend of "Girl and Rat" to her teacher and in 2009...

Współczesna powieść traktująca – na wielu planach i z kilku perspektyw czasowych i osobowych – o problemie pamięci i traumy Holokaustu.

NAVA SEMEL (1954–2017) – wielokrotnie nagradzana izraelska powieściopisarka oraz dramato­pisarka. Napisała kilkanaście utworów, w tym powieści, sztuki, scenariusze oraz libretta. Absolwentka historii sztuki na Uniwersytecie Telawiwskim. Pracowała jako dziennikarka, krytyczka sztuki, producentka muzyczna, radiowa i telewizyjna. Otrzymała Nagrodę Premiera Izraela w dziedzinie literatury (1996) oraz nagrodę Pisarek Basenu Morza...

Seen through the eyes of an illiterate 12-year-old boy, Nava Semels moving, at times lyrical fiction explores life in the Palestine of the 1930s - a world where a young Jew is prepared to undertake multiple marriages to threatened East European women for patriotic reasons alone; where a boys closest friends are a dog named after his hero Johnny Weissmuller (the screen Tarzan of blessed memory), his brothers first wife, and the girl next door. Semel weaves a rich evocation of love and pain and promises, written with eloquent humanity and verve.

On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. The granddaughter tells the legend of Girl and Rat to her teacher; in 2009 those who heard it through her classmates establish an internet website with poems. From now on thi...