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The Girl with the Leica
La ragazza con la Leica
Helena Janeczek (born 1964)
Translated by Ann Goldstein
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The Girl with the Leica
Europa Editions · United States · 2019 · 364 pages
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On 1 August 1937 a procession full of red flags crosses Paris: it is the funeral of Gerda Taro, the first female photographer to die on a battlefield, on what would have been her twenty-seventh birthday. Robert Capa, who taught her to use the Leica, walks in front, devastated. In the crowd are others who knew her long before: Ruth Cerf, her friend from Leipzig, with whom she lived through hard times in Paris after fleeing Germany; Willy Chardack, who settled for being her devoted escort; and Georg Kuritzkes, fighting in the International Brigades. Decades later their memories bring back a generation of young Jewish exiles of the 1930s.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 333 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, Spain, Germany, 1930s
- First published
- 2017 by Guanda
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
9788823518353 (original)
9781609455477 (Europa Editions, United States)
- More
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