Marga Minco, Author Peter Owen Publishers $24.95 (111p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0719-2
Written in hushed tones that convey immediately the fear of discovery, this penetrating Holocaust memoir chronicles five wartime years spent in hiding by Stella, a young Dutch artist who assumes the identity of a dead woman. As Maria Roselier, she...
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Marga Minco, Author Peter Owen Publishers $27.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0760-4
After the Allies liberate Holland, Yona, a young Jew who has spent the Nazi occupation in hiding, returns to her family's house in Amsterdam; it is boarded up and locked, and when Yona pokes her hand through the mail slot, she feels ``a big, cold...
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Marga Minco, Author, Jeannette K. Ringold, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $24.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0789-5
Minco, the prominent Dutch author of The Glass Bridge , here returns to the irremediable sorrows of the Holocaust survivor. Frieda Borgstein, resident of a model home for seniors in Amsterdam, prepares to celebrate her birthday for the first time in
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Marga Mingo, Author, Marga Minco, Author, Ruth Levitt, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $30 (118p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0908-0
The Dutch author of the Holocaust novels, An Empty House and The Glass Bridge , again demonstrates her precise powers of observation in 17 short stories. Unsurprisingly, the most potent works here refer--explicitly or otherwise--to the events of WW...
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