Title: Traces : stories /
Authors: Fink, Ida.; Boehm, Philip.; Prose, Francine, 1947-
Publisher: Metropolitan Books,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Fink, Ida Translations into English.
Abstract: Twenty-one short stories tracing the experiences of Jews during the Holocaust in Poland. The protagonists are mainly women and their stories are tinged with the irony of life. Typical is Sabina under the Sacks, in which a woman escapes from an unhappy marriage, only to be trapped in a roundup.
Contents: The end -- The threshold -- Alina's defeat -- Zygmunt -- An afternoon on the grass -- A closed circle -- A second scrap of time -- In front of the mirror -- The death of Tsaritsa -- Eugenia -- Description of a morning -- Sabina under the sacks -- Nocturnal variations on a theme -- The hand -- An address -- Henryk's sister -- Cheerful Zofia -- Birds -- Traces -- Julia -- The Baker's ongoing resurrection.