The Testament: A novel - Softcover

Wiesel, Elie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805211152 ISBN 13: 9780805211153

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999

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Páginas:356Géneros:12:FA:Modern&contemporaryfiction(postc1945)Sinopsis:

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"A wonderful, huge novel that sings with imagination and great-heartedness."
--The Boston Globe

"Reaches a climax of tragic power. . . . [Wiesel] has wrested life out of death."
--D. M. Thomas, author of The White Hotel

"A fervent, eloquent, and disciplined account of the moral journey endemic to our times."
--Christian Science Monitor

Reseña del editor

On August 12, 1952, Russia's greatest Jewish writers were secretly executed by Stalin. In this remarkable blend of history and imagination, Paltiel Kossover meets the same fate but, unlike his real-life counterparts, he is permitted to leave a written testament. From a Jewish boyhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, Paltiel traveled down a road that embraced Communism, only to return to Russia and discover a Communist Party that had become his mortal enemy. Two decades later, Paltiel's son, Grisha, reads this precious record of his father's life and finds that it illuminates the shadowed planes of his own.
        
Passionate and fierce, this story of a father's legacy to his son revisits some of the most dramatic events of our century, and confirms yet again Elie Wiesel's stature as "a writer of the highest moral imagination" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0805211152
• ISBN 13: 9780805211153
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352