When the Danube Ran Red
«A highly polished literary work, with direct speech inserted into the text to convey a sense of immediacy, and dramatic final sentences placed at chapter endings. In short, this is a hybrid text that needs to be read atthe intersection where memoir, history, and literature meet." - English Historical Review
"This powerful and astute memoir, written by a mature woman many years after the events narrated, embodies a child's-eye view of the Holocaust in Hungary." - The Sewanee Review»
Opening with the ominous scene of one young schoolgirl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsvath's extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hungary, living under the threat of the Holocaust. Les mer
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In the fall of that year, however, things take a turn for the worse. Rounded up under horrific circumstances, forced to go on death marches, and shot on the banks of the Danube by the thousands, the Jews of Budapest are threatened with immediate destruction. Ozsvath and her family survive because of Erzsi's courage and humanity. Cheating the watching eyes of the murderers, she brings them food and runs with them from house to house under heavy bombardment in the streets.
As a scholar, critic, and translator, Ozsvath has written extensively about Holocaust literature and the Holocaust in Hungary. Now, she records her own history in this clear-eyed, moving account. When the Danube Ran Red combines an exceptional grounding in Hungarian history with the pathos of a survivor and the eloquence of a poet to present a truly singular work.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Syracuse University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780815610908
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«A highly polished literary work, with direct speech inserted into the text to convey a sense of immediacy, and dramatic final sentences placed at chapter endings. In short, this is a hybrid text that needs to be read atthe intersection where memoir, history, and literature meet." - English Historical Review
"This powerful and astute memoir, written by a mature woman many years after the events narrated, embodies a child's-eye view of the Holocaust in Hungary." - The Sewanee Review»