| Author |
Grosman, Ladislav.
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| Publication |
Prague, Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, 2019.
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| Edition |
Second English edition. |
| Description |
125 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Call # |
FIC GROSMAN |
| Series |
Modern Czech Classics
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Modern Czech classics.
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| Note |
Translated from the Czech |
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First [edition] by Karolinum |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Summary |
Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, The Shop on Main Street is the story that inspired the highly successful Academy Award-winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking at the Holocaust through the eyes of a complicit individual, the narrative follows a good-natured carpenter living in a Slovak town in 1942 who unwittingly becomes a participant in a moral crisis involving the abuse and persecution of Jews. Describing the film adaptation of Ladislav Grosman's novel, the New York Times declared that it is a "human drama that is a moving manifest of the dark dilemma that confronted all people who were caught as witnesses to Hitler's terrible crime." The review continues: "'Is one his brother's keeper?' is the thundering question the situation asks, and then, 'Are not all men brothers?' The answer given is a grim acknowledgement. But the unfolding of the drama is simple, done in casual, homely, humorous terms--until the terrible, heartbreaking resolution of the issue at the end." |
| Subject |
Aryanization -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction.
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Jews -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Fiction.
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War fiction.
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| Addl. Author |
Lewitová, Iris Urwin, translator.
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Frommer, Benjamin, 1969- writer of afterword.
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| Addl. Title |
Obchod na korze. English
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| ISBN |
8024640228 (paperback) : |
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9788024640228 (paperback) : |
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