Research Catalog
The book of Anna
- Title
- The book of Anna / Joy Ladin.
- Author
- Ladin, Joy, 1961-
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : EOAGH, 2021.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-243 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
Details
- Description
- 153 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "The book of Anna is written in the voice of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in 1950s Prague answering phones for the secret police. This genre-defying book of prose diary entries and autobiographical poems offers intimate glimpses of Anna's present--her writing process, relationships with neighbors, obsessive sexual behavior, chain-smoking, and idiosyncratic exploration of Jewish tradition--while the poems recount her unsparing efforts to reckon with horror, survival, and their aftermath. Written in the midst of Joy Ladin's gender transition, this book asks provocative questions about the meaning of trauma, gender, suffering and empathy that speak to our current historical moment in haunting and indelible ways"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-243
- ISBN
- 9781792307225
- 1792307225
- OCLC
- 1257447146
- Author
- Ladin, Joy, 1961- author.
- Title
- The book of Anna / Joy Ladin.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, NY : EOAGH, 2021.
- Edition
- Revised edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1939-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-243