Still Alive

A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

Author: Ruth Kluger
ISBN: 9781558614369

Now in paperback, this European bestseller won huge -acclaim from U.S. critics, Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post Book World declared this memoir of a Holocaust girlhood and a life reclaimed "one of the best books of 2001 . . . a book of surpassing, and at times brutal, honesty. . . . Among the many reasons that Still Alive is such an important book is its insistence that the full texture of women's existence in the Holocaust be acknowledged."Ruth Kluger's story of her years in several concentration camps, and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor in New York, has emerged as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust. Still Alive is a memoir of the pursuit of selfhood against all odds, a fiercely bittersweet coming-of-age story in which the protagonist must learn never to rely on comforting assumptions, but always to seek her own truth."A deeply moving and significant work . . . compared by European critics to the work of Primo Levi and Elie

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Publish Date: 2003

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Biography & Autobiography / Women, History / Jewish, History / Holocaust, Literary Criticism / Women Authors

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Literature/Novel (LITR))