Blood from the Sky
Contributors: Peter Wiles (Translator)
Edition: 1st Pbk edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780300078305
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; General; Literary Collections; Fiction - General; Literature: Classics
Description: "A novel of richness and deep originality, it tells the story of Boris D., a Jewish resident of Lvov who poses as a non-Jew to evade the Nazis. Boris survives imprisonment in a death camp and moves to Paris following the war. Yet his account of his experiences is no celebration of survival; it is rather a commemoration of the horrifying deaths of countless others. Rawicz in this work has found a possible response to the events of the Holocaust: an unforgettable cry of lyric pain that transforms the horrors of history and memory into art"--Page 4 of cover.