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Lost Bread
Il pane perduto
Edith Bruck (born 1931)
Translated by Gabriella Romani, David Yanoff
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Lost Bread
Paul Dry Books · United States · 18 July 2023 · Paperback
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In 1944 a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl is deported with her family. Barefoot and happy with little as a child, she walks in wooden clogs through Auschwitz and the camps of Germany and survives with the help of her elder sister Judit. Then a new odyssey begins: how to live, where, with whom? Behind her are burned lives, her parents' among them; ahead lies rubble, both real and emotional. Estranged even from relatives who never knew the camps, she tries to make a new life in Israel, then leaves again, touring Europe, and as an old woman she looks back on it all.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 126 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Poland, Germany, Israel, 1944 onwards
- First published
- 2021 by La nave di Teseo
- Author's age
- 90 when first published
- ISBN
9788834604519 (original)
9781589881785 (Paul Dry Books, United States)