Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Béla Zsolt was one of Hungary's best-known writers in the early twentieth century. Born in 1895, he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1918 and in a Hungarian-Jewish forced-labour unit in 1942-1943. In 1944, after a spell in a Hungarian ghetto and a German concentration camp, he found refuge in Switzerland. In 1945 he returned to Hungary and in 1947 became an anti-communist member of parliament. He died in 1949.
Ladislaus Löb was born in Transylvania. He is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex.
[A] heartbreaking memoir... Unbearably immediate
- Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday
A sombre yet strangely beautiful account, devoid of sentimentality...the recent publication of his work in English is long overdue
- Phil Baker, Sunday Times
Remarkable...exceptional
- Caroline Moorehead, Times Literary Supplement
This is by far the best book I've come across on the subject of the extermination of Hungary's Jews
- Tibor Fischer, Guardian
Very, very rarely you read something that knocks the breath out of you... This masterpiece does
- Carole Angier, Literary Review
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Béla Zsolt was one of Hungary's best-known writers in the early twentieth century. Born in 1895, he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1918 and in a Hungarian-Jewish forced-labour unit in 1942-1943. In 1944, after a spell in a Hungarian ghetto and a German concentration camp, he found refuge in Switzerland. In 1945 he returned to Hungary and in 1947 became an anti-communist member of parliament. He died in 1949.
Ladislaus Löb was born in Transylvania. He is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex.