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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories
Two stories -one depicts the horrors of the Holocaust, the other the lifetime of emptiness that pursues a 'survivor' - by a Pulitzer Prize finalist
Fierce, concentrated, and brutal, The Shawl burns itself into the reader's imagination with almost surreal power' The New York Times
Consider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new. As long as they didn't have to say human being.
In the middle of winter, weak and starving, Rosa marches to a Nazi concentration camp. She clutches her baby to her chest, wrapped in a shawl. Later Rosa will stuff the shawl into her mouth to stop herself from screaming out at the horrific event she must witness.
Thirty years later, in a summer without end, Rosa is in Miami. Her anger and grief have become her dementia and her sustenance, and a shawl conjures the spirit of her murdered child.
A modern classic and a masterpiece in both acts, The Shawl succeeds in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness of its aftermath.
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Praise for The Shawl
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Some of the most powerful writing ever to address the Holocaust and its aftermath. A masterpiece - Sydney Morning Herald
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As forceful as someone grabbing your heart - USA Today
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Pulls off the rare trick of making art out of what we would rather not see - Francine Prose
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One of America's most important and inventive writers - Time Out
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Poignant and beautifully wrought - Harold Bloom
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A genuinely brilliant modern writer - TheGuardian
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