This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski

Category: Adults, Anthology, Historical Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Biographical Fiction Holocost World Literature

Written by Tadeusz Borowski
Read by Roy McCrerey
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Release Date: February 13, 2021
Length: 6 hrs 1 mins
Publisher: Upfront Books
ASIN: B08WJ321WV
Barbara Vedder - translator
Michael Kandel - translator

Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion, and prisoners eat, work, and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket, or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.

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