by R. Manheim (Translator), Margarete Buber-Neumann (Author)
Margaret Buber-Neumann, a Prussian writer and journalist and Milena Jesenska, a Czech journalist and who was for two years Franz Kafka's lover, met in Ravensbruech concentration camp in 1940 and survived together for four terrible years. Although in part a biography of Milena, this book is in far larger part about a remarkable pact: if both survived the camp, the two would write a book together; if only one made it, she would tell their story. Three months before D Day, Milena Jesenska died. Thus it fell to Margarete Buber-Neumann to recount those years. This book was a best-seller in France and was awarded a prize for the best foreign book of the year.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: 1st Ed. (U.K.)
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Published: 05 Jan 1989
ISBN 10: 0002725266
ISBN 13: 9780002725262