Tagged: holocaust

The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger

The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger

Early in The Sweetness, an inquisitive young girl asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of sliced lemons and water when they are forced by the Germans to evacuate their...

Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos

Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos

Translator: Liz Szász In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine. July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been...

Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund

Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund

Jessica Cohen, translator Beautifully translated from Hebrew, Our Holocaust is a novel narrated by a nameless child of Holocaust survivors. A prizewinner in Israel, it tells the story of relatives who are “collected” by...