Refusal

Soazig Aaron, Barbara Bray

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Vintage
01 September 2008

Fiction & Literature; Second World War fiction

A moving and often heartbreaking glimpse into how the suffering of those imprisoned in the Nazi death camps didn't end with their liberation

When Klara appears in Paris, two months after the end of the war and years after her disappearance into Auschwitz, her best friend and sister-in-law, Angelika, is elated, if apprehensive. Initially, her fears seem well founded - Klara won't eat, nor will she acknowledge the daughter she has left behind. Gradually, Klara reveals with cold anger and pitiless lucidity, the full extent of what she experienced in Auschwitz as she struggles to readapt to normal life.

Not since Sophie's Choice has a novelist succeeded in conveying - with truth, dignity, power and intelligence - the inhumanity of the death camps and the scars suffered by those who survived them. Refusal is a compelling, elegant and often heart-breaking glimpse into life beyond the horror.

By: Soazig Aaron
Translated by: Barbara Bray
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 135g
ISBN: 9780099466659
ISBN 10: 0099466651
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 September 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Soazig Aaron was born in Rennes. She lived in Paris for several years, working in a bookshop, and now lives in Brittany. For this, her first novel (published in France as Le non de Klara), she was awarded the Prix Emmanuel-Robles and a Goncourt scholarship.

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A gift from heaven, a marvel of good writing, an unashamed and inventive approximation to the unbearable weight of memory. I have been waiting for some time for an account like Refusal. I did not expect this quality and had not dared hope for it... Soon only fiction - that is the paradox, the mystery of literature - will be able to not merely bring to life, but also enrich this memory -- Jorge Semprun Nouvel Observateur The most remarkable, awake-all-night-to-finish read -- Antonia Fraser Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year

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Refusal

Soazig Aaron, Barbara Bray

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