The Shawl
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Fierce, concentrated, and brutal, The Shawl burns itself into the reader's imagination with almost surreal power' The New York Times
Consider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new. As long as they didn't have to say human being.
In the middle of winter, weak and starving, Rosa marches to a Nazi concentration camp. She clutches her baby to her chest, wrapped in a shawl. Later Rosa will stuff the shawl into her mouth to stop herself from screaming out at the horrific event she must witness.
Thirty years later, in a summer without end, Rosa is in Miami. Her anger and grief have become her dementia and her sustenance, and a shawl conjures the spirit of her murdered child.
A modern classic and a masterpiece in both acts, The Shawl succeeds in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness of its aftermath.
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Praise for The Shawl
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Some of the most powerful writing ever to address the Holocaust and its aftermath. A masterpiece - Sydney Morning HeraldAs forceful as someone grabbing your heart - USA TodayPulls off the rare trick of making art out of what we would rather not see - Francine ProseOne of America's most important and inventive writers - Time OutPoignant and beautifully wrought - Harold BloomA genuinely brilliant modern writer - TheGuardian
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