Summary
Suppressed in Hungary until 1980, Nine Suitcases is one of the first - and greatest - memoirs of the Holocaust ever written.Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt’s harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness and a devastating blend of angry despair and cool detachment, Zsolt - one of the earliest writers on the Holocaust - provides not only a r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712606899 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0712606890 |
| Author: | Bela Zsolt, Ladislaus Löb |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2005 |
| Weight: | 2.35kg |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
[A] heartbreaking memoir… Unbearably immediate
[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 *
About The Author
Bela Zsolt
Bela Zsolt (Author)Bela 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 L-b was born in Transylvania.Ladislaus L b (Translator)Ladislaus L b is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex. He was born in Transylvania and spent five months in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp aged eleven. He grew up in Switzerland where he worked as a journalist and teacher before moving to an academic job in Brighton. He has published widely on German and English literature. His translations include Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt, Battle for Budapest by Kriszti’an Ungvary and Sex and Character by Otto Weininger.
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