Ruth Maier's Diary : A Jewish girl's life in Nazi Europe

ISBN-13: 9780099524243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str.

Ruth Maier

Opis

In a lucid yet highly lyrical style, with an incisive talent for narrative and a sharp wit, Ruth Maier explores universal themes of isolation, identity, friendship, love, sexuality, desire, morality, justice and sacrifice. Most of all, however, she seeks what it means to be a human being.

Recenzje

"It sounds like a cliché to maintain that a new Anne Frank has been found. But the newly published diary by Ruth Maier has the same magic strength as Anne Frank's diary" Berlingske Tidende (Denmark)

O autorze

Ruth Maier was born into a middle-class Jewish family in interwar Vienna. She emigrated to Norway and was deported to Auschwitz in November 1942, where she was killed on arrival, aged only twenty-two. Ruth's diary is a testament to the remarkable writer she could have become.

The diary came to light after the book's editor, Jan Erik Vold, found sections of the manuscript amongst the papers of Ruth's friend, the eminent Norwegian poet, Gunvor Hofmo, following her death in 1995.