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On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany. Now he has to learn to live with his memories. In this intelligent and deeply moving book, Göran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood in order to tell his father's story. It is also the story of the chasm that soon opens between the world of the child, suffused with the optimism, progress and collective oblivion of post-war Sweden, and the world of the father, haunted by the long shadows of the past.

'I can't think of second generation work that is equal to A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz. It is a towering and wondrous work about memory and experience, exquisitely crafted, beautifully written, humane, generous, devastating, yet somehow also hopeful' -- Philippe Sands, Financial Times

'An affecting book lyrically rendered by the translator, Sarah Death. It is impossible to read this enormously touching work without contemplating the present day' -- Wall Street Journal

'Beautifully wrought... Written with tender precision, A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz is the most powerful account I have read of the other death the death after the camps' --New York Times

'In understated yet heart-wrenchingly poignant prose, Rosenberg recalls his childhood, where the shadows of the Holocaust were never far away. In conjuring up the indescribable and the unimaginable, Rosenberg's story is utterly unforgettable' --Independent

'Brave, luminous and...cathartic'
New Internationalist

'Breathtaking and devastating... Rosenberg's account of these events, pieced together from letters and historical documents, is brilliantly and lethally done. The result is a profoundly moving act of remembering' --Sunday Times