Trieste - Brossura

Drndic, Dasa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0544538501 ISBN 13: 9780544538504

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2015

Riassunto

“Splendid and absorbing . . . [Drndic] is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick . . . These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory.” —New York Times Book Review

Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an SS officer and stolen from her by the German authorities as part of Himmler’s clandestine Lebensborn project.

Haya reflects on her Catholicized Jewish family’s experiences, in a narrative that deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps, and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, and to eyewitness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. From this broad collage of material and memory arises the staggering chronicle of Nazi occupation in northern Italy.

“Although this is fiction, it is also a deeply researched historical documentary . . . It is a masterpiece.” — A. N. Wilson,Financial Times

“A book of events that have made the last century infamous for the ages, a book that, if it moves you as it moved me, you will have to set down now and then, to breathe." — Alan Cheuse, NPR

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Recensione:

"A work of European high culture. . .even at their most lurid, Drndic’s sentences remain coldly dignified. And so does Ellen Elias-Bursac’s imperturbably elegant translation."—The New York Times Book Review

"A book of events that have made the last century infamous for the ages, a book that, if it moves you as it moved me, you will have to set down now and then, to breathe, to blink and blink and say to yourself and whatever gods you might believe in, please, oh, please please please, never again."—Alan Cheuse, NPR

"Trieste is an exceptional reading experience and an early contender for book of the year."—Minneapolis Star Tribune

"An extraordinarily rewarding novel. . . Rich."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A darkly hypnotic kaleidoscope of a book...Drndic has in her own way composed an astonishment that extracts light from darkness."—The Jewish Daily Forward

"Trieste is a brilliant, original conceptualized novel."—BookBrowse

"Powerful, disturbing, original."—New York Journal of Books

"Highly recommended, this story’s gripping historical approach calls to mind the work of Norman Mailer and Don DeLillo."—Library Journal, starred

"A brilliant artistic and moral achievement worth reading."—Kirkus, starred

"A work of European high culture. . .even at their most lurid, Drndic’s sentences remain coldly dignified. And so does Ellen Elias-Bursac’s imperturbably elegant translation."—The New York Times Book Review

"A book of events that have made the last century infamous for the ages, a book that, if it moves you as it moved me, you will have to set down now and then, to breathe, to blink and blink and say to yourself and whatever gods you might believe in, please, oh, please please please, never again."—Alan Cheuse, NPR

"Trieste is an exceptional reading experience and an early contender for book of the year."—Minneapolis Star Tribune

"An extraordinarily rewarding novel. . . Rich."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A darkly hypnotic kaleidoscope of a book...Drndic has in her own way composed an astonishment that extracts light from darkness."—The Jewish Daily Forward

"Trieste is a brilliant, original conceptualized novel."—BookBrowse

"Powerful, disturbing, original."—New York Journal of Books

"Highly recommended, this story’s gripping historical approach calls to mind the work of Norman Mailer and Don DeLillo."—Library Journal, starred

"A brilliant artistic and moral achievement worth reading."—Kirkus, starred

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0544538501
• ISBN 13: 9780544538504
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 359