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The shop on Main Street

Title
The shop on Main Street / Ladislav Grosman ; translated from the Czech by Iris Urwin Lewitová ; afterword by Benjamin Frommer.
Author
Grosman, Ladislav
Publication
  • Prague, Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Lewitová, Iris Urwin
  • Frommer, Benjamin, 1969-
Description
125 pages; 19 cm.
Summary
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."
Series Statement
Modern Czech Classics
Uniform Title
  • Obchod na korze. English
  • Modern Czech classics.
Alternative Title
Obchod na korze.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Novels.
  • Fiction.
  • War fiction.
Note
  • Translated from the Czech
  • First [edition] by Karolinum
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references
Call Number
JFC 20-498
ISBN
  • 9788024640228
  • 8024640228
OCLC
1133629847
Author
Grosman, Ladislav, author.
Title
The shop on Main Street / Ladislav Grosman ; translated from the Czech by Iris Urwin Lewitová ; afterword by Benjamin Frommer.
Publisher
Prague, Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
Second English edition, first by Karolinum.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Modern Czech Classics
Modern Czech classics.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Local Note
A CARPENTER CAUGHT UP IN ACTIVITIES OF THE FASCIST HLINKA GUARD. TRANS: CZECH. REPRINT: 1970 ED.
Added Author
Lewitová, Iris Urwin, translator.
Frommer, Benjamin, 1969- writer of afterword.
Research Call Number
JFC 20-498
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