Verklempt
'Verklempt', Yiddish slang, means 'choked with emotion.' In his latest collection of stories, internationally best-selling author Peter Sichrovsky aggressively dismantles post-Holocaust Jewish identity. These are love stories where love is a bitter pill, a joke, a missed chance at happiness, a secret, a ghost, or a longing to be with a person one cannot even remember. Sichrovsky writes without embellishment, spare outlines of characters that feel familiar, and infuses them with dark humor and tragedy. With characteristic inquisitiveness and provocation, Sichrovsky delivers a delightful collection that entertains and inspires us to tears, laug…
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Weitere Autoren: Howard, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-9832540-9-6
- EAN: 9780983254096
- Produktnummer: 22560788
- Verlag: DoppelHouse Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 886 KB
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Peter Sichrovsky is an Austrian journalist, author, and former politician. He was a foreign correspondent between 1986-1996 for publications including Stern Magazine, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and Profil. In 1989 he co-founded Austria's newspaper Der Standard, where he served on the editorial board for several years, and from 1996-2004 he was a member of the European Parliament. Sichrovsky is the author of eighteen books, including many acclaimed books based on interviews: Strangers in Their Own Land: Young Jews in German and Austria Today, Born Guilty: Children of Nazi Families (adapted into over fifteen foreign-language theatrical works), Incurably German (interviews with German neo-Nazis), and Abraham's Children: Israel's Young Generation. Currently he writes for the online magazine Schlaglichter, where he is a widely-read columnist.
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