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Cover for the book: House of Ashes, The

The House of Ashes

Revised Edition

Oscar Pinkus

Hardcover $24.95x | 9780912756233Add to cart

Subjects: Jewish studies, memoir, Holocaust

"Displays unusual intelligence and literary skill; Pinkus appears to have forgotten nothing [and] gained enough mastery over that past to dare to make it live again for a reader."—Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books

"[An] intensely written narrative."—Elie Wiesel, The New York Times Book Review

Description

At the start of his account, Oscar Pinkus is a student, laboring over the examinations he hopes will usher him to a career and the unfolding of a normal life for an intellectual Polish Jew. The last words describe a Russian tank crawling toward him in ironic confirmation that a five-year siege of horror has been broken; he waits for tears of joy, but his eyes remain dry. The pages between the impressions registered on these two days are terribly beautiful testimony of the struggle for human survival while submerged in an unfathomable inhumanity.

One of the Holocaust’s literary classics, The House of Ashes was first published in 1964. It has been extensively revised for this edition.


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Distributed for Union College Press

5.5 x 8.5, 272 pages

May 1990

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