This title was awarded the Fernando Jeno Prize. The translator, Dick Gerdes, won the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for his translation of Diamela Eltit's "The Fourth World".
Salomon Isacovici died in 1998. Dick Gerdes is a professor of Spanish at George Mason University. Man of Ashes was first published in Mexico in 1990 as A7393: Hombre de cenizas and was awarded the Fernando Jeno Prize.
"I began reading [Man of Ashes] and felt moved as I do whenever I read personal memoirs by survivors. I have always believed in survivors' testimonies: they are unique. What they say about what was done to Jews by their enemies cannot be said by anyone else. Their personal experience must become part of Holocaust literature."--Elie Wiesel. "The first-person account of an Ecuadorian Holocaust survivor, ... Man of Ashes follows Isacovici from his childhood in Sighet, Romania, through the assassination of his parents and four siblings ... to his emigration in 1948 to Ecuador... At the heart of the book are tales of death and endurance at Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Javorsno and other Nazi camps, and these scenes are filled with sharp insights into human suffering. What distinguishes Man of Ashes from most survivors' memoirs is its Latin American connection."--Ilan Stavans, The Forward. "A wrenching account of the German persecution and extermination of Eastern Europe's Jews."--Omaha World-Herald.
"I began reading [Man of Ashes] and felt moved as I do whenever I read personal memoirs by survivors. I have always believed in survivors' testimonies: they are unique. What they say about what was done to Jews by their enemies cannot be said by anyone else. Their personal experience must become part of Holocaust literature."--Elie Wiesel. "The first-person account of an Ecuadorian Holocaust survivor, ... Man of Ashes follows Isacovici from his childhood in Sighet, Romania, through the assassination of his parents and four siblings ... to his emigration in 1948 to Ecuador... At the heart of the book are tales of death and endurance at Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Javorsno and other Nazi camps, and these scenes are filled with sharp insights into human suffering. What distinguishes Man of Ashes from most survivors' memoirs is its Latin American connection."--Ilan Stavans, The Forward. "A wrenching account of the German persecution and extermination of Eastern Europe's Jews."--Omaha World-Herald.
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