An important and timely book on the legacy of the Holocaust from aworld-renowned commentator on the subject.
Eva Hoffman was born in Cracow, Poland, and emigrated to America at the age of thirteen. The recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, she currently lives in London.
Eloquent book, which struggles heroically to show that reason and
scholarship still have value in the face of genocide and mass
suffering
*Times*
Graceful and honorific
*Observer*
Hoffman draws upon disparate disciplines and forms of literature to
probe the issues that haunt her generation
*Independent*
She is a sensitive but unsentimental writer, scrupulously
fair-minded, keenly aware of the conflicts and dilemmas
involved
*Sunday Telegraph*
Hoffman asks many questions, bringing a voice of reason to the
irrational, reaching out for reconciliation
*Sunday Times*
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