Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.
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Publisher : Penguin; 1st edition (26 November 1992)
Language : English
Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 0140186247
ISBN-13 : 978-0140186246
Reading age : 18 years and up
Dimensions : 12.73 x 1.22 x 19.79 cm
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