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Three Tearless Histories

Three Tearless Histories

by Mike Mitchell (Translator), ErichHackl (Author)

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    Paperback 2018

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Synopsis

Powerful inquiries spurred by photos--history made flesh, the untold lives of the mostly forgotten.
--Kirkus Reviews

A missionary voice of human dignity.
--World Literature Today

Erich Hackl, 2017 recipient of the internationally-recognized Human Rights Award of Upper Austria and winner of multiple literature prizes, brings three little-known and inspiring biographies to light: Gisela Tschofenig's hidden life in the Austrian resistance; a fragmented interview with Wilhelm Brasse, who photographed Auschwitz inmates and saved evidence of Mengele's horrific crimes; and the multi-generational story of the Klagsbrunns, who fled Nazism in Vienna only to find another kind of terror in fascist Brazil.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 216
 Publisher: DoppelHouse Press
Published: 20 Sep 2018
ISBN 10: 0999754440
ISBN 13: 9780999754443
Book Overview:

  • To be released before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2017
  • Book promotion with Smith Publicity
  • Social media marketing
  • Book reviews
  • Applications for Literature-in-translation prizes
  • Outreach to literary magazines
  • Outreach to national magazines for pre-publication serials
  • Promotion to libraries, universities, Austrian/German literature departments
  • Promotion through the Austrian embassy mailing list as well as cultural forums for Austrian and German literature
  • Promotion in Brazil where Kurt Klagsbrunn's photography is enjoying a resurgence of interest in art museums

    • Media Reviews
    Hackl's narrative is masterful and compelling.--Der Tagesspiegel
    Erich Hackl's concise and hauntingly dense works of prose have gained him a huge audience and great success. At the bottom of his efforts are usually some forgotten beings, victims of our century's cruel history, with their authentic albeit not exactly remembered biographies. Here Hackl, the Austrian author, overly sensitized perhaps because of his own country's extreme insensitivities, steps in and tries to bring about an act of belated justice and redemption. This obviates the question whether Hackl is a fiction writer or a historian, a lawyer of the 'small people' or a missionary voice of human dignity: he is all of these.--Erich Wolfgang Skwara World Literature Today
    The clash of fascism and communism on two continents over half a century, as traced through a few family photographs. ... Hackl is like an investigating detective pursuing a case where all the principals are long dead and the few who remain may be reluctant to talk. ... These powerful inquiries spurred by photos are history made flesh, the untold lives of the mostly forgotten.--Kirkus Reviews
    Hackl's use of emotional triggers related to injustice and redemption are both subtle and commanding. In the same way that we relate to injustice of the oppressed, this author delivers stunning situations in which innocent families and characters are destroyed by an unjust rule of law. Yet the ultimate value of a book like this lies in the author's delivery of life between the lines, beyond the vagaries of a reader's sentient ability to comprehend. Here, Hackl elicits his best and most enduring success.--Charles S. Weinblatt New York Journal of Books
    The books of Erich Hackl have now been translated into 25 languages. As a chronicler, he reminds us of the fate of people who were arrested for racial reasons or because of their political convictions, tortured and murdered. Hackl reconstructs the biographies of those who have been erased from history. [...] He takes care to strive for historical accuracy.--Michael Opitz Deutschlandradio Kultur
    Highly recommended ... a haunting book.--Samuel Moser Neue Z rcher Zeitung
    Erich Hackl's subjects are all actual events, fates and biographies. Often with considerable research and effort, he digs deep into the histories of people whose destiny very often have to do with Nazism and / or with Judaism. In his new collection of short [non-fiction] stories Three Tearless Histories, two of which are already published in Austria in newspapers and anthologies, Hackl tells of Jewish people and their destinies. [...] These stories get under one's skin.--Winfried Stanzick B cher.de
    Author Bio
    Mike Mitchell is an award-winning translator of French and German who has been active as a translator for over thirty years. He is the recipient of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations of German works published in Britain, has won the British Comparative Literature Association translation competition three times, and has been shortlisted for many awards including the French-American Translation Prize, the Weidenfeld prize, the Aristeion prize, the Kurt Wolff prize, and the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. In 2012 the Austrian Ministry of Education, Art and Culture awarded him a lifetime achievement award as a translator of literary works. He lives in Scotland.