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Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, is forced to move into a tiny apartment with his niece and his beloved nine-year-old nephew, Adam. One bitterly... read more
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“I again felt as though I'd wandered on to the stage set of a play, and that everyone had his lines but me.-"”
Erik Cohen
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On the last Saturday of September 1940, I hired a horse-cart, a driver and two day labourers to move me from my riverside apartment into my niece's one-bedroom flat inside the city's old Jewish quarters.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Richard Zimler (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Daniela Carvalhal Garcia (Translator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Portuguese
Publisher: Oceanos
Country: Portugal
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9789892305837
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Oceanos
Country: Portugal
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9789892305837
Page Count: 368
Awards edit
- Revista LER -- Livro do Ano (Book of the Year) (2009)
- Marques de Ouro (2009: Portuguese High School Teachers and Students - Livro do Ano (Book of the Year) )
- O Público (2009: 20 Best Books of the Decade 2000-2009)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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