Title: The seventh well /
Authors: Wander, Fred, 1917-2006; Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 Fiction; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction
Abstract: An Austrian Jew and photojournalist who was interned at 20 different Nazi camps between 1939 and 1945, Wander (1917-2006) first published this loosely structured novel in East Germany in 1970. Spare, haunting anecdotes memorialize Jews who died senseless, undignified deaths in Nazi concentration camps. The book is much more than a catalogue of horrors and of courage, as Wanders's narrator struggles to find the language to describe what he has seen.
Contents: Chronology : May 1938-June 1945 -- How to tell a story -- What keeps a man alive -- Bread -- A sense of paradise -- The seventh well -- Karel -- Ezekiel -- and the city -- Blues for five fingers on a board -- The smell of old cities -- What does the forest make you think of? -- Faces -- Joschko and his brothers.