The seventh well
By: Fred Wander ; translated by Michael Hofmann
Contributors: Hofmann, Michael, 1957 Aug. 25-
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780393065381
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Siebente Brunnen.
Description: 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.