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PublisherPicador

ISBN-100805050876

ISBN-139780805050875

eBay Product ID (ePID)414524

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Book TitleEtty Hillesum : an Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Holocaust, Diaries & Journals

Publication Year1996

FeaturesRevised

GenreBiography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, History

AuthorEtty Hillesum

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-002960

Reviews"Remarkable . . . What made life meaningful to Etty was the rare combination of erotic, spiritual, and intellectual passions that made up her 'thinking heart.' A truly great book." -- The Washington Post Book World, Remarkable . . . What made life meaningful to Etty was the rare combination of erotic, spiritual, and intellectual passions that made up her 'thinking heart.' A truly great book., "Remarkable . . . What made life meaningful to Etty was the rare combination of erotic, spiritual, and intellectual passions that made up her 'thinking heart.' A truly great book."- The Washington Post Book World, "Remarkable . . . What made life meaningful to Etty was the rare combination of erotic, spiritual, and intellectual passions that made up her 'thinking heart.' A truly great book."-The Washington Post Book World

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal940.53/18/09492

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisFor the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine., For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman in the midst of World War II. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.

LC Classification NumberDS135.N6H54813 1996

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This book, right from the forward, had me invested, involved, and profoundly impacted. As I read, settling comfortably into the cadence of an adult An
This book, right from the forward, had me invested, involved, and profoundly impacted. As I read, settling comfortably into the cadence of an adult Anne Frank-cum-Anais Nin, I was moved, often to tears, on a deeper level until I was completely and utterly devoid of shame, reading the final words, in public.
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