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The Shop on Main Street

The Shop on Main Street

by Ladislav Grosman
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/11/2019

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Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, The Shop on Main Street is the story that inspired the highly successful Academy Award-winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking at the Holocaust through the eyes of a complicit individual, the narrative follows a good-natured carpenter living in a Slovak town in 1942 who unwittingly becomes a participant in a moral crisis involving the abuse and persecution of Jews. Describing the film adaptation of Ladislav Grosman's novel, the New York Times declared that it is a "human drama that is a moving manifest of the dark dilemma that confronted all people who were caught as witnesses to Hitler's terrible crime." The review continues: "'Is one his brother's keeper?' is the thundering question the situation asks, and then, 'Are not all men brothers?' The answer given is a grim acknowledgement. But the unfolding of the drama is simple, done in casual, homely, humorous terms--until the terrible, heartbreaking resolution of the issue at the end."
ISBN:
9788024640228
9788024640228
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-11-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Karolinum Press
Country of origin:
Czech Republic
Dimensions (mm):
18.9x13x0.9mm
Weight:
0.15kg

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