Description
| Product ID: | 9780140186246 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen |
| Authors: | Author: Tadeusz Borowski, Michael Kandel, Barbara Vedder |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, European history, The Holocaust, Second World War, Political oppression and persecution, European history, The Holocaust, Second World War, Political oppression & persecution, Poland, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Presents stories which are based on the author's own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. This title describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; and, where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1992-11-26 |
