One Hundred Saturdays

One Hundred Saturdays

by Michael Frank and Maira Kalman
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 26/01/2023

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2024


A WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR


NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER


'Beautiful, sober and affecting - a testament to remembrance and friendship' - DALIA SOFER


'A momentous historic retrieval and work of literary art' - PHILLIP LOPATE


Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the full details of her past with anyone. That is until she met Michael Frank, and asked him to help her polish a talk she was to give about life in the Juderia of Rhodes. Neither of them could know that this was the first of one hundred Saturdays that they would spend in each other's company.


Courageous and sharp, elegant and sly, Stella is a formidable modern Scheherazade whose Saturday instalments give a window into the vibrant, vanished world of the Jews of Rhodes. She unspools for the first time the long threads of her history - from the sun-soaked shores of her childhood, to the fifteen harrowing months she spent in camps scattered throughout Europe, and finally to the United States and New York as one of only 150 Jews from Rhodes to survive.


Featuring colour illustrations based on Stella's family photographs, One Hundred Saturdays is an unusual and extraordinary memoir. It is a testament to the soul-saving power of relationships; to memories revisited; to resilience. It's not only a vital slice of history that has largely been ignored, but a story of the possibility of an ever-evolving self, even after confronting Hell.

ISBN:
9781800815384
9781800815384
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
26-01-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Profile
Michael Frank

Michael Frank's short fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Yale Review, Salmagundi, Glimmer Train, and Tablet, among other publications.

His fiction has been presented at Symphony Space's Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and his travel writing has been collected in Italy: The Best Travel Writing from The New York Times.

He served as a Los Angeles Times book critic for nearly ten years. He lives in New York City and Liguria, Italy.

Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman is the author and illustrator of numerous books for children, including Looking at Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything. She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and illustrated Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style. 

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