by Cynthia Ozick (Author)
The Shawl is considered a modern classic - a masterpiece in two acts. The horror and desolation evoked through piercing imagery - first through the abomination of a Holocaust concentration camp murder, second through the eyes of the murdered child's mother, thirty years later, now 'a madwoman and a scavenger' - offers the reader a chilling insight into the empty suffering of a 'survivor'. In 'The Shawl', a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her child, a child barely old enough to walk. The shawl that was the child's security blanket and lone possession reappears in the second story, 'Rosa'. Rosa appears thirty years later, living in a Miami hotel and feeling the strain of a lifetime of pain: the hollowness of seeing her baby killed, of managing her harrowing memories she's being told to forget, and of even now being treated as a specimen and not a human being.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 21 Jun 2007
ISBN 10: 0752880764
ISBN 13: 9780752880761
Book Overview: A new edition of a classic work Cynthia Ozick has been longlisted for the new Man Booker International Prize Two extremely powerful stories about the horror of the Holocaust and life afterwards Both stories were included in volumes of the annual Best American Short Stories The Shawl was last in print in the UK at least ten years ago Both stories were awarded first prize in the annual O. Henry Prize Stories collections 'Fierce, concentrated, and brutal, The Shawl burns itself into the reader's imagination with almost surreal power' The New York Times 'Ms Ozick succeeds stunningly in bringing this tragic, demented woman to life (...) Beautiful and harrowing, these stories are a masterly achievement' Wall Street Journal 'One of the grand masters of the American short story' Newsweek
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