The Shop on Main Street - Modern Czech Classics
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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."
Book information
ISBN: | 9788024640228 |
Publisher: | Karolinum Press, Charles University |
Imprint: | Karolinum |
Pub date: | 06 Dec 2019 |
Edition: | Reprint |
DEWEY: | 891.6354 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 150 |
Weight: | 156g |
Height: | 129mm |
Width: | 189mm |
Spine width: | 11mm |